Why Apple Backed out from India?

rmunaval writes "BusinessWeek reports an interesting article on why Apple might have backed out from India. The prime reason being, India has grown at a much more rapid rate than expected and is no longer the cheap destination for the companies. It grew at an astonishing rate of 9.3% last quarter."

Oh crap. . .

[Who235]

We have to pay them close to a living wage?

That wasn't part of the deal.

Forget it, we're out of here. . .

Let me be the first to say...

[soloport]

I am standing beside myself with amazement. Such growth brings a tear to my leg.

Today in the news

[alexandreracine]

"They just don't have any style." -Steeve Jobs

Re:or maybe apple sucks

[mpathetiq]

Not Apple Records, silly!

D'OH!!! No wonder

[stratjakt]

Homer taught all the Indians about paid vacations and golden parachutes and casual fridays and health plans, just a couple of weeks ago.

Actually, that episode was good social commentary... It's basically what's happening. The Indian labour force is developing the sense of entitlement so near and dear to our hearts.

Gotta wonder if the submittor

[garylian]

I gotta wonder if the person who submitted this article worked as a translator for Zero Wing...

"All your base are belong to us."

"India has grown at a much rapid rate."

Yeah, seems like the same guy...

Re:where's the editor?

[enitime]

"It grew 9.3%? As in, the land area expanded?"

Don't be stupid, that's so ludicrous it's not even funny

Clearly the ocean receded.

Re:Oh crap. . .

[gEvil (beta)]

Heck, the living wage in Cupertio is WAY higher than one in Kansas City, MO or De Moins, IO.

And it's probably higher than it is in Des Moines, IA, too... : p

Re:Oh crap. . .

[sconeu]

Once they do, they get $20 MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE WIDOW OF GEN. SESE MOBUTU!

[this put in to defeat the lameness filter]
[this put in to defeat the lameness filter]

Re:India to start losing jobs.

[Billosaur]

You write that as if it's a joke. Sub-Saharan Africa is a big emerging supplier of tech labor, in the position that India was 20 years ago. We're already seeing major efforts in Nigeria, don't think for a minute that much of the rest of Africa won't follow.

It's already well underway; I get emails from nice people in Nigeria all the time offering to share their money with me. They must be working pretty hard coding all those emails!

What is it with the submissions today?

[Anonymous Coward]

First the number formatting and now this:

Why Apple Backed out from India? [redundant question mark]

rmunaval writes "BusinessWeek reports [reports??] an interesting article on why Apple might have backed out from India. The prime reason being, [redundant comma] India has grown at a much rapid rate than expected and is no longer the [better - 'a'] cheap destination for the [redundant] companies. It grew at an astonishing rate of 9.3% last quarter."

Incidentally the anyone with the slightest degree of familiarity with Indian English will recognize the syntax, which means the submission is from a particularly clueless Indian or a troll seeking to rouse Slashdot's never-starved Grammar Nazis.

Re:Oh crap. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

You wouldn't believe how much extra housing costs on Io once you figure in the extra rad shielding and periodic cleaning of the sulfur gutters. Volcano insurance isn't even obtainable at a reasonable price; everyone just does without.

And don't even get me started on the commute.

Re:where's the editor?

[Doctor Memory]

Obviously, Slashdot is outsourcing its editor jobs...

"Slashdot. News is for the nerds. Stuff that is the matter."

Re:Oh crap. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Volcano insurance isn't even obtainable at a reasonable price; everyone just does without.

George Bush doesn't care about Galilean moon people!

Re:What we're seeing.

[bheer]

> (those penguins will work cheap )

I'm Free, never cheap.

--Tux.

Re:or maybe apple sucks

[mpathetiq]

I'm sure in some way, Paul McCartney is making money... I mean, aren't most songs just Beatles ripoffs anyway? I'm sure he's getting royalties... at least for every Oasis song sold.

Re:Reality Check for the Cult of Apple (tm)

[anakuran]

Apple='cheap';
//error. does not compute.

"Knows when to cut and run"

[dpbsmith]

The article describes Jobs as "a tough-minded executive who knows when to cut and run."

What? Cutting and running is always the wrong thing to do, in all situations, under all circumstances. It is always a craven act of cowardice. Nervous-Nellyism.

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Stay the course. Never give up the ship! Now matter how deep you are in the Big Muddy, the right decision is always to push on. Where would the lemmings be if they had turned back? What if Custer had chosen to retreat?

Doesn't Jobs remember the Think Different posters with the pictures of Icarus, Captain Ahab, and the Earl of Cardigan?

Re:or maybe apple sucks

['nother poster]

You know, there are easier ways to commit suicide than taunting Liam Gallagher in an online forum.

Re:or maybe apple sucks

[mpathetiq]

Liam only browses Slashdot at +5. My comments will go unnoticed.

That premise is just ridiculous. Liam Gallagher reading Slashdot? Noel maybe...

why our readers need to go back to college

[Nimey]

painstakenly

Painstakingly.

typo's

Typos.

I forgot about slashdot for about a year, came back just the other day.

Insert "and" just before "came".

I'm seeing hardly any intelligent comments

Indeed.

dissapearing up it's own asshole.

1) That's disappearing.

2) It-apostrophe-s is a contraction for "it is". "Its", on the other hand, is possessive. Counterintuitive, but that's English for you.

So to recap, you should have written "disappearing up its own asshole.". Have a nice day.

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Look to Pakistan

[bacterial_pus]

Their IT industry is in it's infancy, labor is cheap and it's producing some quality engineers. Not to mention infrastructure in big urban cities is almost the same as India's

Re:Most likely reason

[Shadowlore]

I bet someone was sold on an idea that moving jobs to India...

How about a slight change in punctuation ...
"I bet someone was sold on an idea that moving Jobs to India..."

Re:Why? Bad customer service I bet

[PaneerParantha]

and clueless techs who have no idea what celcius is

That would be surprising. In India the temperatures are given in celsius and if a tech doesn't know what it is, I would wonder if they are from India.

As to your example:

And of course, the USA's finest... *drumroll* being told that component cables would not increase the quality of picture on my PSX games

Here is a similar example experienced in USA. I once went to the Radio Shack store in International Mall in Miami, FL and asked for a wireless keyboard. The salesman laughed at me in his loud voice for all the customers to hear and said that there was no such thing as a wireless keyboard.

Clueless people exist everywhere.

Re:or maybe apple sucks

[Arker]

And I bet you thought you were joking. [beatallica.org]