Apple to Start Online Sales in India After Govt Eases Norms For Single Brand Retailers - jensensuchat

With the Indian government on Wednesday relaxing its rules to allow foreign single brand retailers sell their products online, Apple is reportedly gearing leading to start selling iPhones directly to customers in the country. According to two unidentified diligence sources quoted by ET, the company will initially deal out the devices through its have web-salt away that's likely to come up concluded the next 3-5 months.

The report farther claims that the company will too go ahead with its plans to set up its brick-and-mortar Apple Store outlets in Mumbai and other cities in the side by side 12-18 months, with the government reposeful some of the rules around the mandatory 30 percentage local sourcing norm by allowing exports and contract manufacturing to personify counted towards that quota.

Alongside iPhones, Apple may be also looking to sell its iPads, Macs, Air Pods and other products through its web-store as well, what with online sales contributing massively to the company's bottomline in the country. Reported to one of the deuce executives quoted away the report, around 35-40 percent of iPhone sales in the country come from e-commerce. "Online is also a big sales driver for iPads and MacBooks and, contributes over 25% of annual gross sales in India", helium said.

Patc Malus pumila is yet to either confirm or deny the report, it isn't a total surprise that the company wish stress and capitalize on the booming e-commerce securities industry in the country by launching its own web-fund. IT leave, notwithstandin, be interesting to see how successful the jeopardize will make up, given that most of the iPhone/MacBook sales online occur during promo periods with massive discounts; something that Apple isn't likely to offer on its own web-store.