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Apple's Flagship Mumbai Store to Open in April, Followed by Second Store in New Delhi

SamRyouji said:
Yeah. It really is the same. I just don't want they do what Blackberry did: caring for Indonesia as their market when it's too late for them to care.
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They probably will. Apple couldn’t seem to focus on more than one market at a time.

Siri can already speak in Malay and Thai, but not Indonesian. That tells you that we are just an afterthought.
 
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theorist9 said:
I was wondering why it took Apple so long to open B&M stores in such a large potential market, and found this 2018 article from Forbes. While I don't know if Apple now qualifies according to these guidelines (they've been making the iPhone in India since 2018), I guess Apple's decision to move more manufacturing to India was good enough for the Indian gov't to allow Apple to open some stores:

"Though most Indian consumers do not buy smartphones in urban stores, Apple wants to open an official Apple Store there. But it has failed because India requires single-brand retailers that are more than 51% foreign-owned to buy at least 30% of their manufacturing materials from Indian vendors.

Apple makes most iPhone components elsewhere in Asia and has not been able to convince the government to give it a break. The Journal reports that government officials want Apple to invest more in local production and bring more high-tech jobs to India."

www.forbes.com

5 Reasons Apple's India Strategy Is An Epic Fail

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isn’t it the same company that published SVB as one among the best banks?
 
ian87w said:
They probably will. Apple couldn’t seem to focus on more than one market at a time.

Siri can already speak in Malay and Thai, but not Indonesian. That tells you that we are just an afterthought.
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Not really. It just means they don’t try and saturate markets that aren’t ready. They only have limited resources. Just like they ALWAYS add new countries to products in a rolling way. Only today they added South Korea to Apple Pay. It took years for Australia to get ecg for the Watch for example. Things take time.

I would bet anything they have a plan for Indonesia. And, like the ECG example, I would also bet the Indonesian Government has a part to play here.
 
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dk619 said:
isn’t it the same company that published SVB as one among the best banks?
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Apples and oranges. The quote I extracted from the Forbes article is a statement about facts, not opinons:

"Apple wants to open an official Apple Store there. But it has failed because India requires single-brand retailers that are more than 51% foreign-owned to buy at least 30% of their manufacturing materials from Indian vendors."

So either you have credible information that this statement is wrong, or you don't. Which is it?
 
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Solomani said:
Do you think there will be excitement and long lines (and camping in lines) for Opening Day?
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Yes. I expect there will be many people who want to look into the store on first day, take a selfies/photos, videos.
When IKEA store was opened in Hyderabad there were very long queues, lot of people visiting and causing huge traffic jam.
 
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Solomani said:
Do you think there will be excitement and long lines (and camping in lines) for Opening Day?
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Only the Social Media Influencers will be there for eyeballs. The 3rd party retailers who were existing since long, already have their huge shops on the lines of an Apple Store so I doubt any sane buyer will drop in the shop for the first few days atleast.
Secondly people like me who do corporate purchases, will have no use of an Apple Store. We will still have to rely on 3rd party sellers as Apple refuses to issue Invoices on Company name ( for us to claim Tax benefits).
 
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ian87w said:
They probably will. Apple couldn’t seem to focus on more than one market at a time.

Siri can already speak in Malay and Thai, but not Indonesian. That tells you that we are just an afterthought.
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Yeah. It hurts tho. I still remember laughing bitterly when Blackberry launched Blackberry Jakarta when they're on the brink of collapse. It's too late for them.
 
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