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Apple Offering Free AirPods With iPhone 11 Purchase on Indian Online Store Beginning October 17
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It's already been proven that companies just move to other countries with lower taxes, having them here and using a few loop holes is better than them leaving completely and not getting any taxes from them. It’s not as simple as just closing tax loop holes. Some of the tax loop holes are to keep them in the city/county/state/country they are in.
"Lucky Indians", they get financing options while we *here don't have this option.
* Somewhere in Europe.
* Somewhere in Europe.
I wish the „Apple store“ website would actually come back. I hate how it’s merged with product information. It’s a mess to navigate in my opinion
What do you mean by that? It hasn't changed much... for example, clicking on "iPhone 11" brings up product info, but clicking further on "buy" skips that and takes you right to the purchase page. That's how it's been for as long as I can remember.
back in „my day“, there was the Apple.com website and the Apple store website where you could just easily search a product from the Home Page or click one of the teasers to go straight into the purchasing process (like amazon etc). However, now you have to go to like Apple.com/iPhone, click your way through all those pages and if you want to switch to accessoires for example, it’s like hmmm now how do I go back from here if I want to look at something else like the watch instead. The other day I was looking for a specific charger for the iPhone. Took me a while to find the area on that website, especially if you looked at other products like the MacBook before. I am literally using google search to navigate the Apple website to get the direct links
America has the largest GDP in the world I don’t see why tax avoidance schemes in the EU should benefit the US tax payer.
us is also the biggest apple customer, not giving your best customer base the same or better treatment is a bad look no matter how you look at it.
I agree with this sentiment.
Somehow it’s better to drive the company away to a better more convenient place and make thousands of people lose their job in one shot.
Similar to how the working conditions were being a bit stressful for some people which sadly ended in some tragic situations, but somehow a lot of the activism centered around “burn Apple”, as if it would be better to slash the salary of many of the thousands of workers from $8 an hour or whatever it was to a fraction of it on another factory they didn’t choose or even straight to zero, instead of trying to fix the pain points.
I did a quick pricing comparison(INR converted to USD):
iPhone 11 Pro Max 256 GB SIM Free:
India Store: USD 1806 before taxes(₹1,31,900 in Indian rupees)
US Store: USD 1249 before taxes
Approx. USD 550 cheaper in US.
I am sure there’s a big component of import taxes on Apple products that Apple is passing on to customers in India, while also trying to sweeten the deal for them with the AirPods.
iPhone 11 Pro Max 256 GB SIM Free:
India Store: USD 1806 before taxes(₹1,31,900 in Indian rupees)
US Store: USD 1249 before taxes
Approx. USD 550 cheaper in US.
I am sure there’s a big component of import taxes on Apple products that Apple is passing on to customers in India, while also trying to sweeten the deal for them with the AirPods.
Well, that’s insane. They could as well include the AirPods Pro then and still not equalize the price.
Are there country specific reasons for why is so expensive? Are equivalent android phones as expensive? Genuinely curious as from my very minor understanding on this, the vast majority of the population wouldn’t be able to comfortably acquire this and only a few of the more privileged ‘castes’ there could.
Disclaimer: before I get attacked for ‘bashing’ India, well, I’m not I’m just curious. My main image happens to be from quite highly intelligent professional Indian people that migrated here to North America, movies like Slumdog Millionaire (which got accolades even there) and reality shows like Indian Matchmaking... so, all over the place.
yup, that's the plan and Apple needs more market penetration in the Indian market.
incoming! So,e have already arrived 😂
entitled ones have arrived 🤣. Have you ran a profit making company or ony charity foundations?
Tax Avoidance = Legal
Tax Evasion = Illegal
Do you know what you're talking about?
Haters gotta hate 🤣
Tax Avoidance = Legal
Tax Evasion = Illegal
It's never enough for you people.
They need to do this to have more market presence in India. It's a different market altogether compared to the US. That's why they have kept changing the country manager. This one seems to know what he's doing this time.
The Indian government has always had relatively high import duties on electronic items, cars, luxury goods etc. This is to encourage manufacturing within the country. There are pros and cons to this. But end of the day, the consumers suffer. The upper middle class can afford these iPhones, but when our US friends pay a lot less for these items, it is off-putting. End of the day, the middle class wants "value for money". We have been paying more than 30% import duty on these items for decades. Hopefully Apple bringing manufacturing within India will drive down these costs.
Great, thanks for the clarification.
Ok so on that front with the moves towards manufacturing in India, it wouldn’t technically be importing, so no 30% import tax (or maybe only on some pieces and components not manufactured there).
After seeing the price equivalents, a potential up to 30% price reduction would be such a great thing for everybody there. Hope that’s what happens.
To be honest the iPhone costs around 4 times the American price here in India and the Chinese companies with android currently rule the phone market here. It's just marketing tactic to attract customers.
...and what would be the reason for Apple to give best selling earphones for free, bundled with the best selling iPhone in the region? To "increase market share" lol ? It's not Samsung, that can move their branded in ear earphones only when it's bundled for free with some Samsung phone on a launch day.
Obviously they want to come in Indian market with a BOOM and persuade those, who were on a fence about getting iPhone 11. A lot of potential for improvement from that 3% market share iOS has in India.
I came here just for artwork. Details and how Apple incorporates their products/icon/services into artwork are mind blowing.
This is likely instead of the discount. They can take their typical discount to the iphone on the P&L for iPhone, but boost Airpods revenue at the same time.
you’ve just answered your own complaint.
Apple doesn’t need to create a market share in America they already have a huge one.
In India they’re trying to grow it and have to offer incentives.
Apple isn’t interested in giving you a deal, they’re a business interested in money and they will do whatever gives them the best return as their shareholders demand.