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Next year, the world's second-largest smartphone market will have its own physical Apple store, Reuters reported. Although it is a developing market, its annual mobile phone shipments are second only to. According to Statista, 137.2 million phones were delivered in the region in 2019. By 2022, the number of smartphone users in the country is expected to reach 442 million.

Apple will open its first online store this year and its first physical store next year.

Last May, a report said Apple wanted to open its first Apple store in high-end areas. Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about Apple's current plans at the company's annual general meeting yesterday. Cook said Apple will start selling iPhone online later this year and will open its first brick-and-mortar store next year. As Apple plans to run stores as partners rather than set up a company, the executive said, "We need government approval to enter on our own. I don't want anyone else to run the brand for us."

It's a real economic reality. The average price of an Android smartphone purchased in 2018 is $158. With its preference for value for money, it is not surprising that Xiaomi has become China's largest maker of connected handsets. Thanks to the success of the mid-range Galaxy A series, Samsung had a wonderful year in 2019. Every Galaxy A phone is equipped with a viable camera system, a huge battery and a reasonable price.

Where's the apple? The company makes expensive phones, although you would expect some demand for iPhone among such crazy smartphone users. Naturally, the entry-level iPhone SE is an ideal phone for iPhone lovers. Its price is equivalent to $250, which provides people with the opportunity to own an iPhone. To prevent an import duty of $100 per phone, Apple ended up producing the iPhone SE in a factory. This is also in line with Damodas Modi's "manufacturing" plan, which favours domestic products.

At the end of last year, Apple began promoting the "incredible" iPhone 6s. The four-year-old phone was first made in 2015, when it sold for $383 (the equivalent of dollars). Later this year, Apple began producing the iPhone XR in its factories. While tariffs will be imposed on smartphones imported from China, some people are talking about shifting production to avoid tariffs. However, Apple's production is so small that there is no guarantee that the company will be able to replicate the scale of the supply chain the tech giant relies on to produce the iPhone.

The law requires foreign retailers to source at least 30% of their raw materials from local companies. Apple was unable to meet this requirement before, but sold the phone through a local partner. Pricing is still the key, because high-end iPhone may take consumers more than a year. Still, Apple had its best quarter in history in the three months of the 2019 holiday shopping season. Within three months, iPhone shipments rose 200 per cent year-on-year. Analysts attribute the increase to the release of iPhone 11 and its new camera system.

"Apple achieved a home run through its iPhone 11 pricing strategy," Konashi analyst Madhumita Chaudhary said in a report released last month. "the entry-level iPhone 11 is one of the cheapest" new "iPhone" for some time. IPhone attracts not only current iPhone users who want to upgrade, but also value-oriented buyers of high-end phones. " Remember, Apple priced the basic 64GB model of the iPhone 11 at $699. That's $50 less than the $749 when 64GB iPhone XR was first released in 2018.

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