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 wrong_variable on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:40PM (#11774341)

Yes, this is fairly common in all of South Asia.

The way to get around this is to look poor and be brown/black. Whenever I go back:

1) I buy a local school bag back ( put my expensive laptop and phone in it )

2) wear wife beater that is slight dirty.

3) do not shave.

4) speak only in Hindi.

5) wear only chapal ( bathroom style )

7) let your hair grow and do not comb.

Once you look poor enuf - no one will disturb you.

Since my job is programming - I really do not need to look presentable since people know who I am. But I do feel sorry for anyone who needs to wear a suit.

Unfortunately the only way you be be rich in public is if you have a bunch of body guards.

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by RealGeek on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:58PM (#11774428)

These tips usually don't help in India. If you look poor and nobody, the police could even beat you up for no reason.

If you look and act rich & influential, then police and Government officials play nice with you.

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by walrus01 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:19PM (#11774521)

so, you're screwed either way? or you should try to look middle class and neither rich nor poor?

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