Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
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Re: Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
#2> The group’s members [who opposed Apple's application] include the largest Indian phone brands: Micromax, Intex and Samsung.
Ah.
Re: Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
#3> The group’s members [who opposed Apple's application] include the largest Indian phone brands: Micromax, Intex and Samsung. Ah.
Meh. Apple is asking to be treated like a special snowflake in this case, caught by their own elitism of not-selling-affordable-phones.
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#4A strangely-biased article, starting with the headline. But setting aside the concerns of the companies opposing this for obvious reasons, this is a really great idea.
Consumers in poorer countries get the opportunity to buy used, high-end devices supported by the manufacturer, and those devices get another consumer cycle's worth of reuse before they get recycled. Plus Apple can now reach a large new segment of customers without compromising product quality or new-product margins.
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#5I understand India's desire to push for local manufacturing, and some of this is all just a bunch of theater dancing around that issue. Meanwhile, the Bloomberg article does a good job of letting us read between the lines about the vested interests in keeping Apple out --
> “The millions of imported used phones will need their batteries replaced. What will happen to those batteries, where will they go?” asked Sunil Vachani, chairman of Dixon Technologies, whose phone assemblies roll out a million phones a month for brands like Japan’s Panasonic and China’s Gionee.
So what do they do with used batteries from other phones? This has nothing to do with whether a phone is imported or not.
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#6http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/03/21/apple-hypocritical-...
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Re: Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
#7A strangely-biased article, starting with the headline. But setting aside the concerns of the companies opposing this for obvious reasons, this is a really great idea. Consumers in poorer countries get the opportunity to buy used, high-end devices supported by the manufacturer, and those devices get another consumer cycle's worth of reuse before they get recycled. Plus Apple can now reach a large new segment of custo…
Or they can price it according to the market. How many people in US buy iPhone at full price? Most mobiles are sold at full price in India.
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#8The backlash is just whiney competition. Many people in India see the iPhone as a status symbol. If it is more affordable and comes with a warranty from Apple, people will buy it even if it is refurbished.
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#9It shouldn't come as a surprise. There are many reasons why the incumbents don't want Apple entering the market.
Re: Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
#10> The group’s members [who opposed Apple's application] include the largest Indian phone brands: Micromax, Intex and Samsung. Ah.
Meh. Apple is asking to be treated like a special snowflake in this case, caught by their own elitism of not-selling-affordable-phones.
That may be so, but the "Mobile and Communications Council" (I assume it's a regulatory group) seems to include their direct competition. How sure can anyone be that there's going to be absolutely no conflict of interest?