Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by kbenson on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:20PM (#11772743)

The title seems like the setup for a joke. Are we sure 30% of code from apps in the app store wasn't produced by outsourced programmers in India?

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by justinlardinois on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:29PM (#11772813)

You don't buy App Store apps from the Apple store, you buy hardware, so that's not relevant.

Though if Indian programmers had contributed to the software that comes preinstalled on the products sold there, I wonder what would happen. Does "locally sourced" only apply to physical manufacturing?

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by kbenson on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:39PM (#11772892)

> You don't buy App Store apps from the Apple store, you buy hardware, so that's not relevant.

Totally right. I wasn't thinking about this correctly.

> Though if Indian programmers had contributed to the software that comes preinstalled on the products sold there, I wonder what would happen. Does "locally sourced" only apply to physical manufacturing?

A very good question. How much should the software count towards what something is compared to the hardware, and how much would Apple value iOS compared to the hardware design of a new iPhone. I imagine traditionally it would be quite a bit more, but Apple also invested in a foundry and produces their own chips, so that definitely increases the hardware side valuation.

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