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

With the Indian authorities on Wednesday relaxing its rules to allow strange unmarried brand retailers sell their products online, Apple tree is reportedly gearing up to beginning selling iPhones straight to customers in the state. According to two unidentified industry sources quoted by ET, the company will initially sell the devices through its own spider web-store that's likely to come up over the next 3-5 months.

The report further claims that the visitor will also go ahead with its plans to prepare upwardly its brick-and-mortar Apple tree Store outlets in Mumbai and other cities in the next 12-xviii months, with the government relaxing some of the rules around the mandatory 30 percent local sourcing norm by allowing exports and contract manufacturing to be counted towards that quota.

Aslope iPhones, Apple may be likewise looking to sell its iPads, Macs, Air Pods and other products through its web-store also, what with online sales contributing massively to the company'due south bottomline in the country. According to 1 of the two executives quoted by the written report, effectually 35-forty per centum of iPhone sales in the country come from e-commerce. "Online is as well a large sales driver for iPads and MacBooks and, contributes over 25% of annual sales in Republic of india", he said.

While Apple is yet to either confirm or deny the report, information technology isn't a full surprise that the company will attempt and capitalize on the booming e-commerce market in the country past launching its own web-store. It will, still, exist interesting to run into how successful the venture volition be, given that virtually of the iPhone/MacBook sales online happen during promo periods with massive discounts; something that Apple tree isn't likely to offer on its ain web-shop.

Source: https://beebom.com/apple-online-sales-india/

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