60 "iStores" will open across India

This is interesting. However, I have been in one of these Reliance Digital Stores, and I asked them about when the Penryn based MacBook was due to the store, all I got was a blank! They don't know what's Penryn, and they are oblivious about MacBook model numbers, when I tried that.

Part (well a major part) of the Apple store experience is that the people at the Apple store also really care about Apple and Mac products. However, I fear this is where probably the sales representatives and other helpers within these Reliance digital stores are going to lose out =(! *Sigh*!

I think people at the Apple store here in Pune as well as the ones in Bombay and Bangalore are plain dumb. The products are overpriced and overhyped.

There's a nice little Apple store in the Atria mall in Worli, Mumbai. Friendly, helpful staff, and a decent selection of product. Compared with the Apple authorized service center in Mahim it's like you're on another planet :-)

Been to the Apple Store at the Forum Mall in Bangalore. Looks just like My Apple Store in Freehold, NJ. Plenty of choice etc, good customer service, they replaced a defective ipod for me. Theres a picture of the store up on the Forum Mall Website in the gallery.

And still the state of Maine, where every public school teacher and middle school student has a state issued MacBook, has no Apple store. A 2 hour drive for G-bar support, training, etc. On the upside, I bought my iPhones in New Hampshire and didn't pay sales tax.

I've been to the Apple store in Bangalore and also to the one in Minneapolis in US and I can tell you that there is no difference between them. The layout, the color scheme, the display, support staff, everything is the same. Sure, it doesn't have the lounge but you can easily mistake this store for an American one.

Indeed. OS X has included (basic) fonts & entry systems for Hindi/Sanskrit, Gujarati and Gurmukhi since 10.3, added Tamil in 10.4, and Tibetan in 10.5. However, due to incompatibilities between Apple's AAT system and the OpenType system used in Windows/Linux, documents in these scripts cannot be exchanged cross-platform, nor can Mac users use any of the excellent fonts for these scripts available free for Windows/Linux. Here's hoping this will result in Apple finally paying real attention to the South Asian/Indic market, and fixing these problems.

Sounds like it's time for Apple to improve their Indic language support.

I can't wait for one to open in mumbai, the apple Authorised reseller i bought my MacBook Pro from is Crap!

I bought my iMac from Reliance iStore @ M.G Road - Bangalore, India. They are a bunch of cool guys and even offered me a couple of free tickets to the Boney-M concert.