{"id":36839,"date":"2018-07-12T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=36839"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:54:36","slug":"apple-sticks-to-selling-vintage-iphone-6s-iphone-se-models-to-lure-indian-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/apple-sticks-to-selling-vintage-iphone-6s-iphone-se-models-to-lure-indian-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sticks to selling vintage iPhone 6s, iPhone SE models to lure Indian customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sometimes, it seems like Apple Inc.\u2019s strategy in India is stuck exactly three years in the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s second \u201cDesigned in California, assembled in India\u201d models are hitting store shelves in the world\u2019s fastest-growing smartphone market. It\u2019s the vintage iPhone 6S, a model introduced back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>India has been steadily increasing taxes on smartphone imports to encourage local manufacturing, pushing global brands to make products in the country. As a result, Apple began assembling the iPhone SE at a Wistron facility in Bangalore last year. While the older-model iPhones are listed for $375, that\u2019s still beyond the reach of the majority of Indian buyers. Still, such vintage models serve as an entry point for aspiring Apple customers, offering a way for the Cupertino, California-based company to build some early loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Apple in India didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a small victory for his \u201cMake in India\u201d program when Samsung Electronics Co. opened the doors to the world\u2019s largest smartphone factory near New Delhi. The facility will make inexpensive models as well as its flagship S9. Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo and Vivo have all set up assembly and research &amp; development facilities in India, attracted by a market that\u2019s projected to have 810 million smartphones by 2021, according to Ericsson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple is not taking India seriously, it certainly doesn\u2019t look like a priority market,\u201d said Neil Shah, a Mumbai-based research director at Counterpoint Research, who said the phone-maker still has about 2% market share. \u201cSales volumes are some 200,000 iPhones per quarter,\u201d Shah said. \u201cUnless this ramps to at least a million iPhones, Apple will pay cursory attention to the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it seems like Apple Inc.\u2019s strategy in India is stuck exactly three years in the past. Apple\u2019s second \u201cDesigned in California, assembled in India\u201d models are hitting store shelves in the world\u2019s fastest-growing smartphone market. It\u2019s the vintage iPhone 6S, a model introduced back in 2015. India has been steadily increasing taxes on smartphone [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36841,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions\/36841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}