What a badly written article. Go back to school and find out a little about how to write.

Badly written and misinformed. The iPhone still costs nearly 650 USD in India after which Airtel gouges you with its data plans and get this, THEY DONT HAVE 3G! Also if Americans think AT&T sucks they have to experience Airtel's network and customer care. There are few Indians rich or stupid enough (or both) to pay almost six times the true price for a phone, no matter how great it is.
And what was the author smoking when he wrote the last paragraph? He needs a copy editor and a severe caning.

Hi Nick,

My mother-tongue is not English. I hope you can speak better English and clarify what exactly you mean by this English you have written with your wobbly fingers:
Please note: best communication skill is the ability to communicate the way you want to be understood.
Seasons' Greetings,
Suresh

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"After all, it is difficult to bring a new religion to a country where there hundreds of other gods which are much better targeted for the local market. Some of the gods create the world by having sex, but everyone knows that Apple religious nuts abstain from sex because they cannot get girls to sleep with them."
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i'm not a mac fanboy and i dont really like their attitude either... but i think u should stop hurling joke insults at them that are opposite from the truth.

from my own personal experience and from what i gather from the web in general... mac users are more likely to get laid than hardcore pc users (ok let's tweak this setting here, fix that driver there, configure the graphic card properly, is the ram the bottleneck? ETC)... heck my ex girlfriend who is a sex-bomb is a mac convert (maybe that's why she's my EX lol).

at launch it was an ungodly 55,000 rs (1000$+) at bharti/airtel
My cousin got one through the black market @ 25,000rs. So i honestly believe it wasn't just the marketing but also the price...im not paying for 4 iPhones...

Indians do love the iPhone, but lack of 3G and being tied to operators are few things that dont go well with the market, Grey market has been selling unlocked iphones smuggled from cheaper sources since the original iPhone launch.

Firstly 1US$ = INR 49 (almost 50). 

Next in the US it costs US$ 199 = INR 9751

but in india they want INR 31000 a complete rip off. it should have been cheaper here since the volume could have been 5-10 times of US. even if it was INR 9990 it would have sold like hot cakes

INDIANS ARE NOT FOOLS TO BUY SOMETHING AT >3X THE PRICE AND WITHOUT HAVING A 3G NETWORK IN PLACE

Whoever wrote this article seriously lacks any knowledge abt India..............
people here prefer good phones but at a certain price...........
no1 wuld shell out 800$ USD for a mobile which costs less than 200$ to make....n moreover doesnt even offer features like mess forwarding, sharing files on bluetooth, etc,,,,,,,
phones wit much better features like 5 megapixel cams n other innovative screens etc from htc,samsung, lg sell her in d range of 400-600$ USD............!!!

why d hell wuld we pay so much more for somethng of such less value..........!!!

n yeah btw we do get the whole HTC, Nokia, Lg, Samsung lineup without the headache of carriers before u guyz in d us even get to lay ur hands on them...........lol.............!!!!

I know a lot of people who would be more than happy to buy the iphone if only if it were cheaper. Selling something here for 800$ that costs 200$ in the US is ridiculous. Very few fall for such greed. If they want to win consumer, prices have to be slashed.

They took a hasty decission to hook with Airtel and Vodafone. Both do not have 3G, well, not yet in India and you offer 3G as a special criteria. Secondly, both the networks are known for their vampire nature. We do remember their charges before the entry of reliance and tata into this field. Apple could have made a killing if these handsets were sold in general market or if they have opened their own outlets without comitting on the networks and ofcourse with a sensible pricetag, which can match with other places. Now iphone is a flop and looks funny. I dont think that the market is repairable in India unless they come with something fabulous next version.

Seems as if Apple are missing a trick by not having a dedicated discrete exclusive sex facility on/in their Operating Systems portfolio. I suppose it is so hard to get the right sort of staff to pioneer the exe.content which makes all the difference between the usual old hat pornography and the NEUKlearer Red Blooded Erotography.

Iphone was widely awaited in india and was poised to break all records but due to very high price, it didnt go down well with indian cellphone users. In india people use lot of smsing, this feature was almost non existant in 3g iphone launched in inda.

Before launch, it was available in grey markets for 1\3 of the price and users can get it easily unlocked.so now it doesnt make sense tto pay so much of premium for a phone which doesnt fulfill users basic expectations.

The iPhone is a piece of junk and a rip off. The Indians have some common sense if they're not buying it.