MUMBAI: Apple opened its first retail store in India on Tuesday, underscoring the United States tech titan’s increasing focus on the South Asian nation as a key sales market and alternative manufacturing hub to China.
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally opened the doors to welcome customers as staff cheered.
Hundreds of admirers of the iPhone giant queued around the store in a swanky shopping mall in the financial capital Mumbai, some of them waiting overnight.
The California-based firm is betting big on the nation of 1.4 billion people — home to the second-highest number of smartphone users in the world, after China — with a second store to open in…
