Tim Cook to Visit India This Week Following Beijing

[MacRumors]

Following his trip to Beijing, China on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook will travel to India tomorrow to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this week, according to Reuters.

Cook will be making his first-ever trip to India as CEO, as Apple seeks to increase its presence in the world's most populous country after China. He is also expected to hold meetings with employees and partners in the country.

It is unclear what Cook and Modi plan to discuss, but the conversation could revolve around the Indian government's recent decisions to approve single-branded Apple retail stores but deny the sale of refurbished iPhones in the country.

As growth in the Greater China region begins to slow, India is becoming an increasingly important market for Apple. Last month, the iPhone maker reported that revenue has grown 56 percent in the first three months of the year, while smartphone sales are projected to grow by 25 percent in the country this year.

Cook and Modi first met in the U.S. last year (Image: The Financial Express)​

Apple's growth in India has been dominated by lower-priced devices like the iPhone 5s, which has since been succeeded by the iPhone SE, but India's stance against Apple selling refurbished smartphones could make it more challenging for the company to grow its estimated 2 percent market share in the country.

Apple recently confirmed plans to set up a $25 million technology development center in Hyderabad, which will be focused on Apple Maps development and house over 150 employees. Apple partner Foxconn is also reportedly close to reaching a deal to open an iPhone manufacturing facility in Maharashtra.

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[ike1707]

That graphic at the top is one-of-a-kind Baaahahaha

 

[AFEPPL]

Avoid the ice Tim, unless you want to spend a few hours in the can!
India is an experience i never want to do again.

 

[Carlanga]

All I want to see is a handshake closeup pic.

 

[Zirel]

Hope Europe is next in Tim Cook's map for World Domination.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I think Tim's next little trip should be to Apple HQ, where he can cook up some updated Macs!

 

[MH01]

Time to stop playing politician and celebrity Tim, spent time in Apple HQ and sort out our own house . Id suggest trying to do some actual work with on an iMac with a 5400rpm drive.

 

[Mactendo]

I wish India received as much attention as China...

 

[Mr Fusion]

Time to stop playing politician and celebrity Tim, spent time in Apple HQ and sort out our own house . Id suggest trying to do some actual work with on an iMac with a 5400rpm drive.

It's all he knows how to do. His job is to be a positive, diplomatic face for the company. Because that's all Apple is to him, a money machine. He'll soon get his golden parachute and leave.

I'd be petitioning for a visionary like Steve to replace him, but there aren't any. All we have left is a future where Apple slowly rots to the core like Sony...

 

[MH01]

It's all he knows how to do. His job is to be a positive, diplomatic face for the company. Because that's all Apple is to him, a money machine. He'll soon get his golden parachute and leave.

I'd be petitioning for a visionary like Steve to replace him, but there aren't any. All we have left is a future where Apple slowly rots to the core like Sony...

Bingo, that is what I have been saying for a while now, they are becoming Sony, when Sony stopped innovating, and just milked existing products. I just can't stand his speeches anymore, so fake and out of touch....just a bean counter.

 

[robotica]

We might get lucky and he eats a salid and get some kind of brain disease which causes him to focus on what matters.

 

[smacrumon]

Tim Cook's style as CEO is different to Steve Jobs. I think that is well established. However this doesn't mean Cook doesn't have Apple at heart. Tim totally gets why Apple doesn't put Intel stickers on their products*. Tim's doing a good job, much better than any other CEOs that the company had aside from Steve. The comparisons are very unfair and unnecessary.
Cook is exploring new opportunities including these visits to China and India. What is different is that these trips are very public which we typically aren't used to.
Now saying that, Apple has been lazy in part with its two recent iPhones, and they can't persist with lowering the bar. They'll get there, but until they do, I'll hang on to my devices without upgrading.

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[Avieshek]

Or it's ab't 'Apple Pay'

 

[macintoshmac]

Time to stop playing politician and celebrity Tim, spent time in Apple HQ and sort out our own house . Id suggest trying to do some actual work with on an iMac with a 5400rpm drive.

SO he realises how difficult it is and decides to give out a terabyte SSD standard.
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Or it's ab't 'Apple Pay'

Can't be about Apple Pay. As a nation, we are nowhere close to being ready for Apple Pay yet.

 

[ramram55]

As the saying goes 'Indians buy cheap'. Can apple sell phones in the price range of $200 or so, then talk business ?

 

[ApfelKuchen]

Time to stop playing politician and celebrity Tim, spent time in Apple HQ and sort out our own house . Id suggest trying to do some actual work with on an iMac with a 5400rpm drive.

So, what kind of "serious work" is needed to decide, "Let's put a 7000 RPM drive into those Macs that still have HDDs?" It could probably have been done during the ride from the Beijing airport.

Since the 7200 RPM drive has been around a very long time, it could have been Holy Steve himself who made the decision to use 5400 in most applications. If these people knew that was the case, would they feel differently about the situation? Probably not. They'd simply play the greed card, rather than the Steve card.

Posts like this are, "Give me what I want, I care about nothing else." I do care whether Apple can sell tens of millions of iPhones and Macs in India. And since Apple's biggest manufacturing center and second-biggest market are run by an authoritarian government, I'm glad Apple's top management gives that government some face time, not just FaceTime. Personally, I'm not good at either politics or sales, but I do recognize the importance of both to running a profitable global business.

 

[paul4339]

Next week headlines: Apple invests $1B in India to better understand the critical Indian market.

 

[Mactendo]

We might get lucky and he eats a salid and get some kind of brain disease which causes him to focus on what matters.

Evil but funny.

 

[robotica]

Evil but funny.

It's was a lot more evil until I stopped myself! Haha
He's a good man in general I hope people realise it was a joke!