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Apple Not Able to Open Retail Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods
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This is not protectionism at all. If a rule does not suit a foreign company, that doe not mean the policy is protectionist... Apple is free to sell its products right now also. They are expensive because Apple chooses to keep them expensive. If you think selling them through their own retail store would drastically reduce the price, you are wrong. The government is in no way initiating force. Just looking after the interests of is own people.
Can I just point out the irony of it being 30%?
Perhaps it's more like, people always love to see one scammer scamming another.
The ruling class in India/USA couldn't care less about the average worker... filled with corruption at every level.
As can be said about the USA! Guess which corruption and elitism the citizens of USA should care about!
Oculus saying as soon as Apple makes a decent computer they can support it, and India saying Apple is not cutting edge enough.
It's so funny if it wasn't true.
Sadly I think Apple is so pig headed, and thinks IT RIGHT, it will simply try to find ways around these things as opposed to actually getting back to making decent computers again as they used to, so well.
It's so funny if it wasn't true.
Sadly I think Apple is so pig headed, and thinks IT RIGHT, it will simply try to find ways around these things as opposed to actually getting back to making decent computers again as they used to, so well.
How absurd, here is a country with plenty of poverty yet the Communist thinking Government won't allow this so that folks can get jobs and feed their families. Not a fan of Made in China or even a fan of India but the Indian Government is pretty backwards thinking. Specially after Cook just had such a high profile visit to the country. Wow!
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All the ass kissing in China and India by Tim Cook has backfired.
Wow... Anything does not go Apple way must be communist thinking...
This is first time someone accuse India being so communist... You are the prime example for ignorant American
So you think Tim Cook visiting India is giving them a favour and India must return a favour! And you think Indians must dying for Apple's job posting. No! Nobody really care about Apple not able to open its store in India
They are just saying to manufacture in India as it will be cheaper to manufacture in India.
Not to ruffle feathers, but... If Trump were to do this in the USA, people would lose it and hate him. India deserves a medal for telling them "no".
America first... India first
I guess Apple will be pushing Foxconn to fast track those factories. By then, it will be too little, too late. China and android own India.
Besides, Apple is incapable of putting a proper MSRP on an iPhone. 5C/SE... These were their "budget" models. Not sure what planet $600+ is considered affordable
Xiaomi has unbelievable phones for less than $200... Why would anyone buy an iPhone there?
Edit: My mistake on the SE price. $400 is the entry price but that is in the USA. Maybe someone from India could round that up for me? That's gotta be pushing $5-550 by the time it gets in an Indian hand?
Still, 2-3 times what a nice Chinese Android phone would cost.
America first... India first
I guess Apple will be pushing Foxconn to fast track those factories. By then, it will be too little, too late. China and android own India.
Besides, Apple is incapable of putting a proper MSRP on an iPhone. 5C/SE... These were their "budget" models. Not sure what planet $600+ is considered affordable
Xiaomi has unbelievable phones for less than $200... Why would anyone buy an iPhone there?
Edit: My mistake on the SE price. $400 is the entry price but that is in the USA. Maybe someone from India could round that up for me? That's gotta be pushing $5-550 by the time it gets in an Indian hand?
Still, 2-3 times what a nice Chinese Android phone would cost.
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To be perfect candid, India has had running water and toilets since 3300 BC -
"Among other things, they contain the world's earliest known system of flush toilets"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley_Civilisation
You may want to read a little history before asserting the inferiority of their race.
Do you not think India's image, it's synonymity poverty, had anything to do with the fact it was under foreign rule in one for or another since the 10th century, especially in the north-western states; 1000 years of Islamic conquests followed by 300 years of British imperialistic sovereignty, had left the numerous princely states ravished, it's wealth looted, and the people broken.
And probably a good reason why Tim Cook is the man for the job. Apple's challenges in the international field now go way beyond just coming up with the next big thing.
He may not be much of a product guy, but I am sure he can steer Apple through these challenges.
Yeah - brilliant business & economic strategy for India. How have their strategies worked out so far for their standard of living and well being of their population?
Actually what they want is more jobs and for their economy to be supported. That's why they are saying no to less than what they want. Oh "specially after cook just had a high profile visit" - Now WHY do you think Cook WAS over there? WOW indeed.
What a rant?
Where does it say that the indian people must produce the products they buy?
Every economic common sense!
Have you noticed what Walmart and the cheap Chine imports have done to the USA's middle class?
Apple is a company incorporated in the USA, manufacturing in Chine and Taiwan, and routing their profits via some island of the European West coast! Apple really has NO right in India!
By your standards, only the .001% of the USA, India or any nation's population will benefit - the ultra rich middlemen who do not produce or innovate - just dictate from glass towers.
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^This. I guess if they can't rise out of the third world on their own, they have to get leverage somehow..
Tim Cook just got played by the Indian government. This is why you don't bend over for these corrupt Indian and Chinese governments...they will screw you over the first chance they get and you will be left with nothing to show for your pandering.
Your logic and math are unassailable. Let's see, India can take a few retail jobs or require a manufacturing plant which will, conservatively speaking, produce 1 or 2 more jobs than a few Apple stores.
True, but as I recall its apple's rules for stores the issue. IIRC something about a minimum amount of space for the store. Which has issues. Its problematic to get that space need met. Visit Seoul's electronics market or shopping districts like Myeong-dong and this hard to meet becomes clear. its asia...you don't get the ample space you would get in the states as readily. I can't speak for Europe, never been there.
Apple could be flexible here. Samsung doesn't run the country. Stores like Frisbee do quite well and are apple only (well besides the universal BT device and such even apple stores sell).
Apple also seems to have been flexible in Japan. I didn't whip out the tape measure but I have seen the apple store in Shibuya Tokyo. eyeballing it, about the same size really as a Frisbee store I saw in Seoul. Maybe frisbee a bit smaller but if so...apple is splitting hairs to the point of being pricks about it. And no where near the size of a US apple store for sure.
Irony being that the USA's economy is often very much a house of cards. While a "rich" country - there seems to be an incredible amount of people who aren't working, can't east, schools that can't afford books and supplies and are overcrowded, and so on.
I'm not saying India is better off or without it's problems. But Let's not stoop to insulting an entire country. And you're not the only one doing it - so I'm not just talking about you...