Comments on: iPhone’s Failure in India; Music to My Ears

By: indianninja

indianninja — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:01:17 +0000

India goes for “value for money”Usa goes for”the best quality”
Nokia care centre outnumber apple’s by many times.
Most useful apps are available for nokia for free.Most nokia and other phones satisfy our need.
Iphone has many apps blah blah. .but. .
What Iphone can do apart from apples services that other phones can not?
And then is that necessary ?
By the way, I use N73 that,sure ,less processor etc, but plays all media incl (coreplayer)flv,avi, etc,can play youtube over gprs,can use microsd,can change battery(for travel etc),can use microsd as pendrive and can connect to pc without net(itunes is an website if I am not wrong),can multitask(play music and browse,play 2 or 3 tracks simultaneously,)cut mp3,edit movie,use torrent ,use dosbox,use java,open zip,rar,jar,sis,sisx,win2007formats,have proper bluetooth.Why I buy an Iphone4?

By: Shreya

Shreya — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:29:48 +0000

This is extremely interesting. It’s exactly what I’ve planned to do my PhD dissertation on -a cross cultural study on technology acceptance. Companies need to realize that in order to be successful in an international market, the culture of each country must be studied. There are some things that will never be popular in some cultures because it’s simply not their nature.

By: Jai

Jai — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:20:07 +0000

@ Sean, I agree its too early to say I phone has failed. 1,00,000 by Dec 2009. It was only November the article was written and sales were 11,000. so it seems they are nearly on Target.

By: Eknath

Eknath — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:02:36 +0000

Microsoft and Nokia doesnt have cult status, they are just the cheapest options available for poor Indians.
A cult rotates around a name, like mac and Apple and Steve Jobs. Nobody is crazy about Microsoft or Nokia.
And Indians are more price conscious than quality conscious. Indians need a car, then Maruti is default option. When need a PC, an assembled PC with pirated Windows and a lot of other pirated software is the default option. When its cell phone, it Nokia, with a lot of features, but none of which works, is the default option.
To remember again, iPhone is a failure in India, because its EXPENSIVE and not because it lacks certain features.

By: bhatnaturally

bhatnaturally — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:50:01 +0000

@Manan, ‘a piece of junk’? MAD magazine would have put that under ‘Moron Mail’. Talk about sweeping statements. One other reason for the failure of the iPhone in India (apart from being ‘sold at the price of royal gold’) is the lack of halo around Apple in India. In India Nokia & Microsoft enjoy cult status. While the iPod has made some headway here, a lot of people still prefer the regular, inexpensive mp3 players. In the absence of any reverential feeling toward Apple, an ‘expensive phone without features that were expected’ in a phone (groan, here we go again) was seen as a dud. Never mind if it is not just a phone.

By: iphonerulez

iphonerulez — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:22:13 +0000

Apple should forget India. The iPhone and India are not compatible. India is strictly a place for Nokia and Acer. A waste of time selling Apple products in any country that’s financially challenged. Even Apple should realize people need food and electricity before buying an iPhone. If any Indians want iPhones, they should just move out of India.

Android handsets should sell very well in India. Android should be able to run on the cheapest, crappiest handsets you don’t need money to buy. They want high-tech at bargain basement prices, then Android is the way to go. :p