Tim Cook opened the first Apple Store in India on Tuesday, as the iPhone maker stepped up its battle with Samsung over the growing luxury smartphone market in Asia’s second-biggest economy.
The chief executive’s visit to the financial capital, Mumbai, for the launch of its flagship consumer store comes with Apple on a manufacturing drive in a country that is positioning itself to grab a bigger share of western tech production from China.
India will also overtake China as the world’s most populous country this year, but Apple’s share of the world’s third-largest smartphone market is small — at just under 5 per cent of handsets sold last year.
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