By Thilak August 9, 2007

Apple not interested in India?

It’s pretty interesting to see a company like Apple ignoring such a jumbo Indian market. I was surprise to see that they don’t update their Indian catalogue store. Prices mentioned on their website are ridiculously higher than retail price in India. This scares off potential customers and significantly hurts their market in India. More interestingly, some links on their site return 404 – Page not found errors.

I don’t know about the software, but India is still a significantly large market for computer hardware. I see no shortage of Apple fanboys (or girls) here in India. There are so many people here in India waiting for a decent online music store like iTunes. It would have been better for both Apple and their consumers, if they upgrade Indian Catalogue store to a full-fledge online store where we can purchase Apple products online. I wonder when we Indians will get our hands on the Jesus Phone (iPhone)

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Comments for “Apple not interested in India?”

  • That's true. I don't know why apple ask for higher cost than cost compared relatively to US for its CEs. Same goes for nikon. Which why general tech people do not lean more towards buying. Personally I will prefer to buy from US than in India. If importing in India has got higher cost, then our govt. should take care of the excise & customs.
  • Venkatesh
    Apple will never have a huge presence in India unless it decides to beat the shit out of Microsoft in the Indian market for that, Apple has to start manufacturing machines in India, the difference in the prices is due to the shipping, customs and the profit margin which inflates the price.

    But recently Apple and Reliance have signed a deal to open iStores in India, let's see what happens when these two giants collaborate.
  • Vasanth Vasudevan
    May be Apple is ignoring India because of its very strong Microsoft population. Apple is a huge hit with certain industries such as Advertising. May be jobs is cooking up a marketing strategy to capture the indian market (including the microsoft users).

    They have to work out special prices exclusively for the Indian market or else they may not be able to reach the middle class audience.
  • Dear Sir,
    Please give me a Add Apple store in india (mumbai)
  • Apple closed down it's operations in india .. It never gained profit in the indian market.
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