Comments on: Apple not interested in India?

By: ClubPenguinCheats

ClubPenguinCheats — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:33:01 +0000

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.

By: newton

newton — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:21:48 +0000

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.

By: Venkatesh

Venkatesh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:27:08 +0000

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.

By: Vasanth Vasudevan

Vasanth Vasudevan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:16:27 +0000

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.

By: Get Free Home Delivery of Microsoft Software in India

Get Free Home Delivery of Microsoft Software in India — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:21:35 +0000

[...] Unlike Apple, Microsoft isn’t taking Indian software market lightly. They have not only started an online store for purchasing legitimate software at reduced prices, but they’ve along come up with a unique service called Dial-a-Software which lets you purchase software over phone and get it delivered to your door steps. [...]

By: Chirag Mokani

Chirag Mokani — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:22:09 +0000

Dear Sir,
Please give me a Add Apple store in india (mumbai)

By: Blogulate

Blogulate — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:48:01 +0000

Apple closed down it’s operations in india .. It never gained profit in the indian market.

By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:41:16 +0000

Geez, you’re right! Some of those prices are outrageous! For example, the new iMac starts at $1,199, or about 54,000 rupees. But the site sets the starting price of an iMac at ~$1499 — the price of the most expensive version. Some of the other prices on there are equally ridiculous.

By: cenourinha

cenourinha — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:52:24 +0000

Maybe is not a apple thing…
In Portugal who is responsable for the apple.com.pt is a company called Apple IMC Portugal… and they don’t give a shit of it…

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:59:39 +0000

I heard that Apple is planning to close its stores in India due to loss.

By: Karthik Kastury

Karthik Kastury — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:52:12 +0000

I have to agree with you on this one thilak.. Apple really is ignoring India.. Hopefully Apple does something about this and India comes alive on its radar..

keeping my fingers crossed..!~

By: Ashok Arora

Ashok Arora — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:56:55 +0000

India may have a big computer, but If we compare with US it is nothing. Few days ago I was reading somewhere about online advertising markets. Indian online adversing market was around 5% of US.

Indian market look bigger, but purchasing power of Indian market is very less.