“Multinational technology Apple has announced the appointment of Khushboo Ponwar as market development lead for App Store, Apple Music and iTunes,” The Financial Express reports.
“Ponwar’s job will be to focus solely on India,” The Financial Express reports. “Ponwar was previously responsible for App Store, Apple Music and iTunes business in the Middle East, Turkey, Africa and India.”
“The Indian government has reached out to the company on renewing its application to set up wholly owned stores in the country, after rebuffing it the first time over local-sourcing exemptions,” The Financial Express reports. “The rules have since changed. The move came after Apple CEO Tim Cook visited India and opened its new office in Hyderabad, investing about USD 25 million and creating up to 4,000 jobs.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple smartly continues to sharpen their focus on India.
Apple should continue to lobby the Indian government to allow quality Apple Certified Refurbished iPhones to be sold in the country whicch would allow more India citizens to be able to own the world’s most advanced and most secure smartphones.
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Gee MDN, my post removed did I say something untruthful?
I suppose you’ve been up to your usual shenanigans, needling genocidal foreigners with tortured acronyms and double entendres. Sorry I missed it. 😄
It was pretty simple and short, but I can understand it on the one hand it was a first post.
Side note to everyone: Remember when folks used to answer their first post with a first post post. That was a lot of fun. Then there were those who would just post “first post” and it was really kewl when it worked, really funny when it didn’t work.
Anyway the thing about MDN is the level of communication. They throw a “we are going to ignore you” move and I think about it, but it’s a happy situation for this guy so I can see why they did it, and I can appreciate that I can play with it. They ignored, I moved on. Play with it. That’s what love is all about.
As you should know, you seem to be attracted to it. winks.
Editorial: Remember when folks used to answer the topic with a first post post.
Yes it thrills me when someone in my clan lands a haymaker on a deserving lout, I’d be bloodless otherwise. Boxing their ears or laying bare their rank hypocrisy through clever words also earn admiration. I appreciate that you can’t repeat here what you said that was deleted so I will leave it to my imagination, and we can laugh over the matter next time we meet.
Never pass up an opportunity to laugh. See you round.
What a great name – Khushboo Ponwar – I like the way that rolls out…
Yeah I thought of that too. At any rate good luck to him.
lol, yeah, better than Dr. Vinnie Boom-Batz.
Bugger of with that Trap.
huh?
India is an important market for Apple. India’s population is growing 1.2% per annum. More importantly those living below that poverty line has been cut in half (50% to 25%) in the last 6 years due to government business/tax reforms enacted about 10 tears ago. If only 10% of India’s population can afford an iPhone (of any stripe), then India represents a market of q.3 MM potential iPhone buyers.
Assuming Apple secures 20% market share India may account for 26 MM iPhone sales per year (and growing).
With a conservative ASP of $600 that number of units will increase Apple’s annual revenue by about 7%.
Yes, India is important to Apple.
India will definitely be a good counter weight to China dependence! Go Apple Go
here is Samsung’s launch in India:
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJs7N3aM75Y”
I actually like some Bollywood movies so I won’t comment except to say I hope Apple doesn’t waste indian talent like that…