Apple Seeks Government Permission to Open First Stores in India

Apple Inc has applied to set up its own stores in India, one of the world's fastest growing smartphone markets, as the iPhone-maker looks to tap new opportunities amid worries of slowing growth in its main markets.
Apple sells its iPhones, iPads and Macs in India through third party resellers, and industry analysts estimate that the Cupertino, California-based company has less than a 2 percent share in India's smartphone market, dominated by cheaper brands.

The company has filed an application with India's Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to open its own stores, Amitabh Kant, secretary at the federal trade ministry unit told Reuters.
Apple also confirmed the application filing, but declined to give details.
Its expansion plans in India come at a time when concerns about slowing growth in the United States and China, the world's most important market for smartphones, have weighed on the company's stock in the last few months.
Shares in Apple, the world's most valuable company by market value, are down 28 percent from their peak in April last year.

The company operates more than 450 stores in 18 countries. Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told Reuters in October that Apple had 25 stores in China and was opening a new one roughly every month.

Its plans for India have been held back due to restrictions on foreign investment in the retail industry, which require single brand overseas retailers to buy close to a third of the goods sold at their stores from local producers.
Apple representatives held talks with Indian government officials about a relaxation of the 30 percent local-sourcing norms before filing the application, said a source familiar with the company's plans.

Apple's plans come against the backdrop of initiatives unveiled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met with Apple chief Tim Cook during his US visit last year, to boost foreign investments in India.

In November, the government eased foreign investment norms in 15 major sectors, including relaxing the mandatory local-sourcing rule for foreign single-brand retailers in the case of "cutting-edge technology" products.

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Latest Nokia 225 dual-SIM version Phone

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Weight grams	99.8 grams
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Release year	2014
Release month	04
Custom Graphics	Yes
File formats	WAV, AAC, MP3, MIDI, H.263, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, M-JPEG, AVI M-JPEG
Speakerphone	Yes
Phone lock	Yes
Special features	Photo sharing over Bluetooth and Slam Sna microblog
Speech Recognition	Yes
Unknown	Wi-Fi

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Display Type	LCD
Color Mode	262K
Touch-Screen	Transmissive
Display Resolution	320 x 240
Display size (inches)	2.8 inches
Display's superficy (in square inches)	3.76 square inches
Display's superficy (in square mm)	95.5 square mm
Estimated dots per inch (DPI)	142 dots per inch
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Pay with your phone for rewards

New app eliminates the need to carry a bunch of loyalty cards yet helps users earn more rewards


Tired of lugging a stack of prepaid cards, loyalty cards and discount vouchers? Mogi has the solution.
Mogi is a new mobile wallet app created by Singapore company Mobile Media Creations that consolidates the lot.
Available on Apple iOS and Google Android, Mogi allows you to buy and store cards from your favourite retailers in one convenient app. It also allows you to claim instant discounts and redeem gifts when you pay with your smartphone.

Mogi's point-of-sales terminal uses an Android tablet (pictured here) or smartphone to scan a customer's smartphone for payment. Photo: Mobile Media Creations

The concept is similar to coffee chain Starbucks' prepaid card, which lets customers pay with the card's stored value and be rewarded with free drinks if they use the card frequently.
With Mogi, you purchase credits for a retail outlet in the form of a prepaid card and the rewards start flowing the minute you top up.
You get extra value for every top up and the amount varies based on the merchant's reward scheme. So if you top up $100, you might have $110 stored in the card. Topping up can be done via a PayPal account or credit card, but both payment information will not be saved on your handsets.
Ms Kong Shuyun, 29, a manager, welcomes the convenience that Mogi offers. She said: "I do not carry too many cards just the ones I use most frequently. It's quite annoying when I realise I've left these cards at home when I need them."
During payment, a quick recognition code is created on your device. The code, which is valid for only five minutes for security purposes, is scanned by placing your phone on the sales terminal or letting a cashier scan the code with another smartphone. Unlike most daily deal programmes, which usually draw customers with huge discounts, Mogi aims to retain customers by providing extra value and rewards.
"With daily deals, merchants are obliged to give 70 to 90 per cent discounts, only to realise that customers will not go back to them when items go back to the full price. Many merchants will not take up daily deals again because of the lack of loyalty," said Mobile Media Creations chief executive officer Rashad Budeiri.
As of now, you can pay for your purchases with Mogi across 70 retail, health, beauty and dining outlets here. Consumers will have more retail outlets to choose from when the app extends its support to another 150 stores in the following months. Loyalty points can also be collected with every use of the card, which can be used to redeem gifts at your favourite stores.
Mogi also sends notifications to the user, highlighting promotions such as a discount voucher or free items to be redeemed at various retail outlets. Merchants have the freedom to customise the app's top-up amount and discount vouchers for their stores, and even place advertisements into the Mogi app on their own through a Web-based back-end system. -STRAITS TIMES.COM
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24 hours without my iPhone

Imagine running to the toilet in a rush after holding your pee in during a very long meeting, with your very trusty iPhone in hand. As you get to the toilet, you place your phone on the ledge behind the bowl almost too quickly, and before you know it - “plop” and it falls right on target into the bowl.
Well, that was exactly what happened to me with the only saving grace being the fact that it was before I had started peeing.

The next 24 hours (ok not really, it has only been 18 hours, but it sure feels like 36 or more) were, to a smartphone addict, sheer horror.
As someone who used to pride myself for thinking that I could survive without my phone for at least a day or two(obviously not very introspective here) and that I’m not as reliant on my phone as some of my friends and colleagues, I was definitely proven wrong in the last 18 hours.
After my phone committed hara-kiri and refused to be switched on, I was stunned into silence, but foolishly thought that it wasn’t a big deal.
Not until I realised I needed to meet my friends for dinner and had no way of telling them I was going to be late for dinner. Thankfully, my office computer was still on and the only way I could reach them was by dropping them a Facebook message, praying and hoping that someone would check it.
After giving myself a pat on my back for thinking so, I realised, that my iPhone doubled up as my GPS when I drive (with the new awesome Google Maps app), and without it, I really had no chance in making it to this new hole in the wall place that they discovered.
I decided to take the chance, winged it and drove towards the general direction, only to find myself parking almost two streets away and having lost all bearings in the midst of getting a lot. So with no Google Maps, I literally had to go up to someone just to ask for directions … how 1998 of me!
Well, I did make it to dinner in one piece, but no one – and I allude to my many Instagram bosom buddies – knew about the mouthwatering woodfire Cajun Chicken pizza that I devoured . Neither could I show my friends at the table the latest 9Gag meme that left me in stitches.
And with no access to Whatsapp, I was possibly left out of at least 15 group chats where my various groups of friends were busy making plans for drinks, discussing their latest shopping buy or moaning about the latest twist in our favourite TV shows.
I smell the end of my social life in the air.
Even while feeling emo and wallowing in self-stupidity, I could not tweet about this emotional roller-coaster I was going through.
I miss my phone.

So now, as my poor phone is having a grand ol’ time in its customised rice spa, I am this close to purchasing my next iPhone, just in case the current one decides to never wake from its slumber.
It’s a painful painful time for me, and I hope you guys will never take your phones for granted, treating them with the TLC that they deserve before they bid you adieu prematurely.
Did you ever lose your phone or have it die on you? Did you go through the same trials and tribulations as me? Did you miss it as much as I did? I would love to find out how you coped with it, so do sound off in the comments below!
 Read more:http://www.herworldplus.com/lifestyle/gadgets/24-hours-without-my-iphone

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