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