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Apple India sees iPhone boost to bottom line

by Steven Sande (Apr 17th, 2013)

TUAW has recently reported several times about Apple's efforts to tap the huge market for iPhones in India. Now the Times of India is reporting that Apple's net profit for the India business unit has skyrocketed 431 percent year over year. As the newspaper explains, these figures do not take ...

iPhone 4 a hot commodity in India thanks to new trade-in plan

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2013)

One of the most untouched markets in the world for smartphones is India, and Apple has quickly leaped to second place in the market by using a very smart pricing workaround. As noted on Electronista, Apple is now using a trade-in promotion with resellers that has tripled sales in less than a ...

Apple to triple franchise stores in India

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 26th, 2013)

The India Times is reporting that Apple plans to triple the number of franchisee stores it has in the country to 200 locations by 2015. Speaking under the conditions of anonymity, some of the 17 Indian franchisees told the India Times that Apple has asked the franchisees to dramatically scale ...

Google Now isn't awaiting approval

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2013)

Perhaps you're an iPhone user who has been wistfully looking at the features of Google Now on a number of Android phones and hoping that someday, your phone would be able to perform many of the same functions. According to a comment made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt today at the Google Big Tent ...

Daily Update for March 14, 2013

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 14th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple hit number two in India's smartphone market

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 14th, 2013)

IDC has released new numbers for India's smartphone market share and the results are very good for Apple. In Q4 2012 Apple controlled 15.2 percent of India's market, putting them in second place behind Samsung who has 38.8 percent of the market. The second place position is huge for Apple as ...

Apple starts iPhone payment plans, makes retail deals to grow India's smartphone market

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2013)

China is no longer an emerging market at this point. It's now the top market in the world for smartphones, and Apple has worked hard to get a foothold in early. So now that China is covered, where's Apple headed to next? India seems to be the answer, as Apple has slashed prices and implemented ...

Apple TV launches in India

by Steven Sande (Feb 19th, 2013)

It's been a year since Apple updated its "hobby" product, the Apple TV, but for fans in India the little black box has just appeared in the online store. The Apple TV sells for Rs. 7900, or about US$145.50, a premium of almost 50 percent over the pricing in the US. Users in India can ...

Apple sees huge growth in India, but trails behind competitors

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 8th, 2013)

TechCrunch reports that Apple has seen a huge gain in sales in India -- up to 400 percent -- in July through September 2012, but still has a long way to go compared to its competitors in the region. According to the research firm IDC (based on figures collated from that time period), Apple ...

Gameloft announces 27% boost in earnings in 2012, 56% of sales from back catalog

by Mike Schramm (Jan 30th, 2013)

Developer Gameloft has announced its earnings for the last quarter, and they're up. The company even beat out its own guidance, ending 2012 with a 27 percent boost in earnings on the year in total, up to $275 million. I would have thought much of that was from the major Christmas sales that we ...

Daily Update for November 6, 2012

by Steven Sande (Nov 6th, 2012)

iPhone 5 supply runs short in India

by Mike Schramm (Nov 6th, 2012)

The iPhone 5 officially launched in India last Friday, and just a day later, stores were selling out of their stock. Don't get too excited. Indian sources note only about 15,000 phones were made available for that market, so a sellout isn't too surprising. There were about 100,000 phones made ...

Talking to Siri: India local search hacks (With bonus NZ goodness)

by Erica Sadun (Oct 3rd, 2012)

If you live in India and ask Siri to find you a restaurant, you may be disappointed. Siri isn't set up to provide local business searches in non-supported locales. Here's what normally happens in this case. Siri replies, "Sorry, I can't look for restaurants in India." Today, Claudia Ramirez ...

New iPad arrives in India, eight other countries today

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 27th, 2012)

Apple began selling the new iPad today in an additional nine countries, including India. The other countries include Colombia, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand. With today's rollout the new iPad is now available in 56 countries around the world -- the ...

Apple's opportunity to expand retail into India

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2012)

The Wall Street Journal's Livemint blog reports that Apple may be considering opening up retail operations in India as soon as it possibly can, following a new governmental ruling in that country that foreign companies can indeed open and own retail stores. Apple's been poking around India for a ...