A modest proposal: miss call management service for India
July 12th, 2007
India, beeping/miss calls
The parody site mutiny.in has released ‘secret details’ of Apple’s plans for the iPhone India Edition. Among them is MMS — in this case, Miss Call Management Service, which “allows you to make calls to friends without giving them a mill-second to pick up your call”. Might be useful…particularly if your friends are quick to answer their mobiles.
The spoof requires a kernel of truth; missed calls are indeed pervasive in India.
Pervasive is an understatement. In fact, inspired by that, my friends and I almost completed writing down a “missed call protocol” that helps exchange information at zero cost. We’ve stopped as the tariffs were brought down significantly.