Rumor: Apple talking with CDMA carriers in India

Given ther iPhone has been available on all networks in the UK for nearly a year now I'd be interested to see what Apple's share of the mobile phone market is over here.

@ Aakaash - you hit the nail on its head.

Ist Apple Insider is no authority on Economic situation in India. You quoting them is a proof of Americans being Stupid ( Come on half you population still feels that the sun goes around the Earth). What took USA 70 years to Achieve ; India is doing it in 10 years.

Dont be surprised if you see Dumb Americans dancing to tunes of Indian Snake Charmers in 10 years.

Wow TUAW another hit at India. okay let me try to put it in figures for you (source: Wikipedia)With a population of 1,187,255,000. if we just take into consideration 1% of the population purchasing the iPhone. We are looking at a sale of 11.8 Million phones for just 1% of the population. Compared to Verizon's entire user base of 86.6 million users. Now lets put things further in picture iPhone are already sold here unofficially. I am currently using an iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, Blackberry (For work), HTC Desire (dev purposes). Th iPhone 4 here costed at the time Rs 70,000 which is $1578.71 (based on current exchange rate). My 3Gs at the time costed me Rs 50000 which is $1127.65 My Blackberry costed me Rs 29,990 which is $676.36. My HTC Desire costed Rs 27,000 which is $608.93. Now lets add it all up the figure is a cool $3,991.65. And I am still just talking about my personal phones. If i get into figures of family, friends and relatives to even try to give you a broader perspective as to the kind of buying power here am sure you will shut your nonsense about India. Also, If you actually researched 4 out the the top 8 of the worlds richest business men are Indians. Yet, because of the psyche of all Americans we are never considered a viable market. Nokia, considered as as a Huge market and 15 years down the line we are one of its biggest markets.
Take a second, Think, Research before writing crap. Even your racist comments on our game Teen Patti, If you would've actually put in some effort. And i mean literally 2 mins of effort you would've realized its one of India's most popular card games. And if you really cant report anything good about India then why do it at all ?

SHUT... UP...

Just to throw some light, almost every iphone user i know in india, buys it from the grey market and end up paying almost double the price. So obviously, the sales figures don't have a good story to tell.

Regardless of whether it comes as CDMA or GSM, we just hope Apple provides its own after-sale service here. Right now it's a struggle if you need your existing iphone repaired for the phone, Apple totally disowns the phone.

And even if half the country can't afford it, there's another half longing to get their hands on the iphone, some even ready to pay an exorbitant price.
But we don't see the point, when others such as Blackberry, Samsung or Nokia provide such excellent service. And now we have android phones which will inevitably rule the roost here.

Apple sales will continue to suffer here if they keep turning a blind eye to this market like they've done in the past. And the reason they shouldn't ignore India is that even if they manage to bite into a small share of this huge market, it would mean selling more than half the number of iphones sold in the US.