Apple opens up its first stores in India

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook arrives in India to open its first local stores in the country. Apple’s sales in India hit a new high of almost $6 billion in the year through March, highlighting the market’s increasing importance for the iPhone maker. Menaka Doshi reports on Bloomberg Television.
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[alphabusiness]

It is not about affordability! Indians look value for money. If Apple intention is to sell iPhone upgrades every 6 months to Indians, then they are going to go wrong! A phone purchased for $1000 is expected to last 4-5 yrs …unfortunately apple don’t want it to be that way.

[ap-dkyw]

" Not early risers" to be honest no one goes to stores at 8:30 am to buy an apple product when you have to go to school college workplace or the like most people are productive in that time, apart from the reporter.

[Clean]

The store could've been there earlier also... But previously govt wasn't allowing 100% FDI directly...
For example, Starbucks have their partnership with Indian conglomerate TATA... Where tata holds about 49 or 51% of the stake...

But now the law has been amended to something which says that there can be 100% FDI, provided atleast 30% of the revenue is sourced from India...

Edit: if you have 2 mins extra, you can have a look in reply section....😉😄 Specially long reply to @Dips which is 7th in the list...

[vallentinald]

Opening a store in BKC itself indicates that it’s for the elite and not the common man. If a common man does afford an iPhone, they will use it for 6-7 years min. That’s value for money. Apple should reduce prices by 25-30 percent to gain major market share. Otherwise this will only be a hype and a place for window shopping.

[TamilDhevadhaiTharunya]

Only one question to Apple you're selling your products in India for the same price as in USA but why not pay the employees in India the same Salary as you pay in USA?

[GuruKhatri]

Now Rahul Gandhi will add Cook to his Adani and Ambani Tamasha 😂😂

[saurabhsinha]

Google should open its store in India for the sale of Pixel phones!

[objectsmedia]

"We are not early risers" speak for yourself. If anyone has stood in VT station in at 6:30 ?

[migrisongs]

It's nothing about business but all about giving message to China that we can choose to deviate from your country.And to those lambasting indians about indian cannot afford I phone should know that the middle income population of india is more than entire europe population which will grow even more steadily. So instead of patronizing see the big picture.

[antrikshsaini]

Please let me know if I'm not wrong. Doesn't it look like from THE OFFICE where they launch the pyramid tablet by Sabre? It looks exactly like that episode.😂 😂

[benoitblanc-zlrc]

Not early riser ?
U sure about that ?

[dawnglianapachuau]

the correspondent holding a oneplus phone.

[desrai]

They couldn't at least invite the Indian guru of Steve Jobs and Marc Zuckerberg who gave them guidence for there lives.

[dilveerpahwa]

how is that apple logo glowing without any visible connections

[VBASqlAccessPowerApps]

World will look up to India now jai hind.

[rakesht.]

@menakadoshi pls be on streets tomorrow at any hour you feel is early morning as per your standards and then say it again on camera as to Indians are not early risers

[FinanceWisdomTech]

THANK YOU MRS REPORTER FOR NOT USING IPHONE, THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH FOR THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT TO USE APPLE PRODUCTS.

[ailicullens]

Tim Cook is really proving himself recently!

[gmyxmbb]

only old and outdated iphone in that store is make in china the rest higher spec are imported from china, like iphone 14 max pro

[rohitvarma]

We the Duffer Indians celebrate the opening up of a shop of a foreign company, which doesnt even make a wire in India...our manufacturing is barely 16% of GDP...India's trade deficit with China is 100 billion dollars...what r we celebrating