> I agree with an above poster, this seems to me like a political or legal concession just for Apple to be able to sell in India more easily (or maybe at all?).

> I agree with an above poster, this seems to me like a political or legal concession just for Apple to be able to sell in India more easily (or maybe at all?). Yes it is. And it has paid off well for India and it's people. > India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market. There are hundreds of thousands of factories already set up in India. India has almost all the major car companies manufacturing here, there is Samsung with its biggest phone manufacturing plant in the world, I think almost all of Xiaomi's phone sold in India are made in India. With a market as big as India's, a company as big as Apple can surely figure out how to navigate through the process.