He will also be expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.
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“Apple is focused on making the best products and services in the world and we are thrilled to open this new office in Hyderabad which will focus on Maps development”, Cook said in the statement. This initiative will come a long way in helping tons of iOS developers based out of India by providing them with specialized support. In India, however, Apple sales rose more than 60 percent during the period.
Slated to open in early 2017, Apple’s Design and Development Accelerator facility in Bengaluru will be a first-of-its-kind centre that will support engineering talent and developer community, creating innovative mobile apps in India.
Apple, especially Tim Cook, has made it no secret that China and India are the newest darlings of the tech industry at large and, of course, Apple.
CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to visit Hyderabad and to meet with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. India is in the world’s third-largest smartphone market, but so far Apple only has a 2 percent market share there, due mostly to the high cost of the company’s phones in a country where incomes are much lower than in Apple’s typical big markets. The Apple CEO’s visit to India comes at a time when the technology giant is hit hard by a slower growth in global sales of its flagship products, iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The Design and Development Accelerator will also provide support on Swift, the iPhone maker’s language for developing apps on Apple devices. This is projected to grow 25 per cent this year.
Apple is establishing an accelerator program in Bengaluru, India’s current capital for startups. But more than just that, the facility will even conduct one-on-one app reviews, which could help provide confidence and speed up the release of apps coming from the country. NASSCOM President R Chandrashekhar said that the investment in Bangalore will have wide-reaching effects for the area’s highly talented and growing developer community. As Apple will incubate startups with ideas around IOS, and other software of Apple.
Apple supports over 6,40,000 iOS app developer jobs and other positions related to the iOS ecosystem across India, the statement said. He was accompanied by Apple India head Sanjay Kaul.
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