Apple Set To End 2023 With 7% Market Share for iPhones in Android-Dominated India

New Delhi, September 9: Pushed by home manufacturing, Apple iPhones are set to garner 7 per cent market share in the Android-dominated smartphone market in India this 12 months, newest information confirmed on Saturday, because the tech big gears as much as globally launch its flagship units subsequent week. Apple iPhone shipments grew 68 per cent (year-on-year) in the primary half of this 12 months in the nation.

Within the first half, Apple secured a 6 per cent market share in the Indian smartphone market and dominated the super-premium smartphone section (priced between Rs 50,000-Rs 100,000) with a strong 63 per cent market share, in keeping with information from market intelligence agency CyberMedia Analysis (CMR). Apple’s Wonderlust Occasion: iPhone 15 Sequence with 4 Fashions, Apple Watch Extremely 2, New Watch 9 Sequence and New-Gen AirPods Making ready to Debut; Full Particulars Inside.

CMR estimates the iPhone 15 shipments in the launch quarter to hover round 65 per cent, pushed by an elevated ‘Make in India’ initiatives. iPhone home manufacturing in the nation has considerably elevated over the previous 4 12 months.

In one other push to its India manufacturing dream, Apple maker Foxconn began the native manufacturing of the next-generation of iPhone 15 at its Sriperumbudur facility close to Tamil Nadu sooner than ever. A small set of ‘Make in India’ iPhone 15 items is more likely to be exported to different nations inside a brief span of time from its world launch.

Different Apple suppliers in India like Pegatron and Wistron (being acquired by the Tata Group) may even assemble iPhone 15 as quickly as attainable, in keeping with sources. CMR anticipates a 25 per cent YoY development in iPhone shipments with the iPhone 15 sequence.

iPhone 14 sequence shipments in launch quarter had been round 58 per cent and iPhone 13 sequence had been round 23 per cent in the nation. “Apple has loved a constructive development trajectory in India in current years, with gross sales of its older technology iPhones steering development. The upcoming iPhone 15 sequence is poised to keep up this development momentum,” Prabhu Ram, Head-Business Intelligence Group, CMR, instructed IANS. Apple Loses About USD 200 Billion in Market Capitalisation on Experiences of iPhone Restrictions in China.

Nonetheless, its success will hinge on Apple’s capacity to successfully handle any potential manufacturing challenges and cargo delays with the 15 line-up, and particularly the ‘Professional’ fashions, he added.

The market momentum for iPhones in India have been pushed by the gross sales of the earlier generaIon iPhones. Apple is internet hosting its subsequent massive world product launch — showcasing the contemporary lineup of iPhone 15 sequence — on September 12. The tech big can also be anticipated to announce new Apple Watches on the occasion.

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