Tim Cook bullish on India growth, retails stores coming soon

New Delhi, Jan 28 : Bullish on India, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the online store has received a tremendous response in the country, Apple has doubled its India smartphone share to 4 per cent in the December quarter and the company is ready to launch retail stores in the country in the future.
Apple, which has already started manufacturing certain iPhone models in India, has worked out locations for its retail stores in the country as well.
Apple is likely to open its first physical store in Mumbai this year, according to earlier reports.
“We put the online store there for example, and last quarter was the full first quarter of the online store and that has gotten a great reaction to it and has helped us achieve the results that we got to last quarter,” Cook told the analysts on the earnings call late on Wednesday.
“We are also going in there with retail stores in the future and so we look to that to be another great initiative, and we continue to develop the channel as well.” In February last year, Cook said that the company is set to open its first branded retail store in the country in 2021.