{"id":1006511,"date":"2026-05-02T09:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006511"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:37:46","slug":"apple-sees-huge-opportunity-in-india-despite-modest-market-share-tim-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/apple-sees-huge-opportunity-in-india-despite-modest-market-share-tim-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sees huge opportunity in India despite modest market share: Tim Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India still accounts for a modest share of Apple Inc\u2019s business despite the company performing strongly in the market for some time, CEO Tim Cook said on Friday. Cook, who is set to be succeeded by John Ternus from September 1, 2026, said he is \u201cover the moon\u201d about India\u2019s growth prospects. Describing India as the world\u2019s second-largest smartphone market and the third-largest PC market, he noted that across products\u2014from iPhone to Mac, iPad, and Watch\u2014over half of Apple\u2019s customers in the country are new to those products, indicating strong expansion of its installed base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India still accounts for a modest share of Apple Inc\u2019s business despite the company performing strongly in the market for some time, CEO Tim Cook said on Friday. Cook, who is set to be succeeded by John Ternus from September 1, 2026, said he is \u201cover the moon\u201d about India\u2019s growth prospects. Describing India as the world\u2019s second-largest smartphone market and the third-largest PC market, he noted that across products\u2014from iPhone to Mac, iPad, and Watch\u2014over half of Apple\u2019s customers in the country are new to those products, indicating strong expansion of its installed base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006512,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006511\/revisions\/1006512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}