In an effort to to downplay disquieting drop in revenue in China, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook turns to the success notched up by company in India.
For a change, it's the Indian market in Apple Inc.'s gaze. India is now officially one of the few regions driving iPhone sales, at a time when the Chinese and American markets are subdued.
Cook, in a recent conference call, says that Apple was very pleased with growth in the emerging markets.
?India was up over 400 per cent,? Cook said, after releasing the company?s first quarter results on Tuesday.
A big part of this increase in sales, analysts say, can be attributed to Apple?s marketing blitz and its introduction of EMI and smartphone exchange offers.
While Cook and an Apple spokesperson refused to disclose the number of iPhone shipments to India, Cybermedia Research claims that the company shipped nearly 200,000 iPhones to India between April and June, a three-fold jump from a year earlier when it shipped just 72,000 phones.
In addition to this, Cook also said that in India, iPad sales have registered double-digit growth.
Apple had launched a scheme last April which allowed consumers to exchange any of their old smartphones for a cash discount of at least Rs. 7,000 on the purchase of an 8-gigabyte iPhone 4.
?It was a gamble for them at the time. Many saw the move as a tactic that involved dumping older stock into the country. Some also thought that it could devalue the phone as a status symbol, but it has
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