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Apple Pulls Out of India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the curious dept.

tanveer1979 writes "Barely 3 months after it commenced India operations, Apple has decided to pull out its software operations from Bangalore. The employees will be given a severance package which is equal to two months' pay. The sales and marketing operations will remain on (these consist of around 30 people) but the software and support will be completely pulled out." From the article: "Apple had set itself a hiring target of 600 by the year-end. After a gala induction ceremony on April 17, the operations team went to Transworks for training. Some of the managers were about to leave for the US for further training when they were asked to stay put."

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  1. Comes with selling a lifestyle by teslatug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's what happens when you sell a lifestyle as opposed to a product. Yuppies don't want to talk to an Indian when they call support about their iPod.

  2. Re:Payback's a bitch by Kiaser+Wilhelm+II · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Has nothing to do with racism, especially since Indian people are not a "race" (which, according to modern biologists, does not really exist anyway).

    The average quality of an Indian IT worker is lower than an America. Source? Practice. I've been in several different companies in the past years and I've seen what outsourcing does. Maybe in 10-20 years when things get more modernized and other factors improve it may be different but this is the true story. Outsourcing is being done to simply shave the bottom line at the cost of quality.

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  3. Re:if quality count by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He or she is posting on Slashdot. In other words: who cares? Activate grammar/spelling Nazi mode when you're not on a website filled with techies that don't write formally for a living. This is stuff that is typed at the spur of the moment upon seeing a silly subject or idiotic post. It's one thing to write documents or letters and a completely different thing to just splash your two cents on an internet forum.

  4. Fingers Crossed... by Warlock7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's hope that this is an increasing trend. The outsourcing of tech and support jobs from the US to India has been destroying the industry.