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Indian developers taking over the world

Will soon surpass US
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 08:16

INDIAN CODERS working on applications for Sony Ericsson phones will soon outnumber Americans doing the same job according to the mobile communications giant.

A recent contest aimed at attracting talented developers to the platform has had enquiries from 70,000 developers and content providers from the sub-continent.

India currently has the second largest number of developers working on software and content for Sony Ericsson phones, but will soon overtake the US.

Six Indian developers will be chosen in two categories – best application and best application idea – and will be invited to become part of a 100 day mentoring programme after which they will become Sony Ericsson Certified Developers.

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$cheap_labor = "India"

It doesn't concern be that our jobs are finding their way into the 3rd world. The fact that Indians can only code a task given to them, and not actually invent a new technology means that they'll never be in the same league as the true inventors of computer technology. The day Indian labor demands more money, we'll have all our jobs back, and that day is coming soon.

posted by : fsdfs, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
outright........Blasphemy...... misleading title..

Hi, I am Indian born.. .. and..... 
As ALWAYS.. enquirer is known for misleading titles... so that you are forced to read their article..
(phew!.. am addicted to this new disease acute crohnic iquirism)...
These titles are so convincing.. they force you to read whats inside.. 
.. inquisitive minds ... not inquiring minds....

May be this article written business has become more prostituting than prostitution itself....(oldest known profession)....... 
they are making it cheap and selling every idea.. by exaggeration...
FUD Fear, uncertainty and doubt ....
at last but not the least confusion.

.. apologies for typos....
sd/-
mohnkhan

Mohiuddin Khan Inamdar

posted by : Mohiuddin Khan Inamdar, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
India = $#!+

I am taking programming jobs from sites like elance.com almost everyday
All my clients are complaining about the extremely poor quality of work done by indians programmers and tell that they will NEVER EVER use one again
So, I predict Sony Ericsson will go out of business

posted by : axxo fan, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Quantity != Quality

From the mouths of my Indian friends who work in the industry, in the USA:

For the most part, the jobs that are farmed out to India are for the non-critical parts of development (front-end development, etc.). This is mostly because, while there are trained peope there, there is a lot less oversight that can be provided on the output there, and the labor is cheap. 

This isn't to say that all the labor there is cheaper and lower quality--there are many exceptions--but companies are going to have most of their meaningful work done on local soil, even if there are some development houses elsewhere.

That said, there are a *lot* of people of Indian descent working in tech firms on American soil; it seems much more than naturalized Americans. But who is to say they're not Americans too?

posted by : BB, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Sony who?

I'm American and I don't know anyone who owns a Sony-Ericsson phone. So... I guess... who cares?

posted by : GodUrDumb, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Outsourcing Horror Stories

I personally work for one of the highest ranking SEO firms in North America (We rank #1 for the term SEO Services out of the entire US Beanstalk SEO), and you wouldn't believe the number of horror stories I hear from people that have out sourced!!

I've talked to clients whose websites have been removed from Google Index, paid for programming and received nothing, received horrible programming that had to be redone, and in one case the developer after he was finished with the clients website duplicated it and set it up for himself to compete against his client!

As if everything else in life you pay for what you get. That being said we do employee several Indian teams but we've spent years finding the right fits, and even then we've had issues ourselves.

posted by : Daryl Quenet, 27 November 2008 Complain about this comment
lol @ the yanks.

oh please. americans think they invented everything. name one innovative technology that came out of the states the past 5 years?

sure, intel,microsoft, and some big name companies have their hq's in the US. but i doubt that the brain behind the products (core2 micrcoarchitecture for example, along with corei7) are yanks.

posted by : wh3resmycar, 28 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Programmers should realise they are only the new mechanics,

and we all know what happened to Detroit and what the world thinks of American made cars. It died and most of them are unreliable junk with low rent interiors and low power engines.

Japanese cars were laughed at in the 1960's and 1970's. But they were cheap. By the 1980's they were the most reliable, and their parts were still cheap. By the 1990's they were in every market that mattered and had overtaken many of the home grown makers. By 2008 Toyota has overtaken GM as worlds largest proucer.

The Indian programmer is going the same way. Today he is cheap, in 10 years he will be reliable. 10 years after that he will be respected. And 10 years after that he will be the one with the greatest tech.

India has a space agency. More millionaires than almost all western countries, and several billionaires, famously the Tata and Steel giant Lakshmi Mittal.

"Round up the wagons (american cars are unreliable), the Indians are coming!"

Extra info - the japs are now under attack from the Koreans etc. And the Japs are still struggling to make luxury priced cars that they can sell in Europe. America is buying the Lexus, but Europeans are sticking with Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Audi, Maserati, Ferrari, etc.

posted by : interested_party, 01 December 2008 Complain about this comment
One more reason for Revolution

Yes, one more reason for revolution. American companies import developers from overseas, while people like myself (American born) would LOVE to learn computer languages at a high level...but can't afford the schooling here in America. I've taught myself a few languages, but that's not the same as receiving professional instruction.

posted by : Bob, 01 December 2008 Complain about this comment
None in good

And all the executives of the "BIG Companies" in the USA and EU are all fools to outsource projects to India even after displaying their poor performance.
Americans are not the only creatures on Earth so that if they don't use Sony, it shouldn't exist.




posted by : spartan, 02 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Indian developers suck

ROFL The worst SonyEricsson ad ever... Let me rephrase the "INDIAN CODERS working on applications" means "indian CODERS (not programmers at all - just stupid code monkeys) eating curry and developing some crappy buggy stuff".
Conclusion: NEVER BUY SONY ERICSSON!

posted by : Steve, 14 June 2009 Complain about this comment
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