Apple CEO Tim Cook has cofirmed that the Cupertino based tech giant will open news stores in India later in the year. While Cook did not reveal the cities where these new outlets would be opened, the company had already confirmed via an earlier blogpost that the four new stores would be in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune and Noida.
“In retail, in addition to the two stores we opened during the quarter, we’re also looking forward to a new retail store in the UAE, the arrival of the online store in Saudi Arabia and new retail stores in India later this year,” Cook said during the Apple earnings call.
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Apple currently operates two retail stores in India: one in Mumbai’s BKC and another in Delhi’s Saket. The stores were opened amid much fanfare in 2023 with Cook being in attendance and crowds rallying up to get a new Apple product from these.
These new stores are part of Apple’s broader push in India as the company seeks to balance its reliance on the Chinese market. Last year, Apple began manufacturing the iPhone 15 series in India, and this year, it announced that the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are also being manufactured domestically, with plans to export them to select countries worldwide.
