Apple Opens App Accelerator in Bangalore, India To Foster iOS App Development (mashable.com)

From a report: Apple is taking further steps to foster the developer ecosystem in the world's fastest growing smartphone market. The Cupertino-based company said it has opened a new App Accelerator in Bangalore, India. The announcement comes less than a year after the company said it would open an iOS App Design and Development Accelerator in India's Silicon Valley. Through the new App Accelerator, the company hopes to offer specialised support to developers as well as tools to help them push the boundaries. At the centre, a group of experts will lead briefings and provide one-on-one app reviews for developers. [...] With Apple's push to turn India into its next major market, it will pay in the long run to have quality apps that solve local problems on the App Store.

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Apps!

[Anonymous Coward]

You are all sacred cows, mooing for more appy apps to app your cow moo apps!

APPS! MOOOOOOOOOO!

Indians making apps for indians

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems logical. I don't see a lot of non-Indians writing apps for the Indian market.

Re:Indians making apps for indians

[mjwx]

Seems logical. I don't see a lot of non-Indians writing apps for the Indian market.

You've got that backwards, this is about having Indians write apps for non Indian markets. Basically so App production can be farmed out to off-shored body shops more easily.

Re:Indians making apps for indians

[Gr8Apes]

My thought was "Oh good, now we can have lots of high quality apps that cover all those variations we don't currently have", because the App Store is so devoid of quality apps.

Re:Indians making apps for indians

[Anonymous Coward]

Upto now, every app written has been available for iOS, and the bulk of them have been US centric. I don't know if it's changed more recently, but the last I looked, any Indian who wanted to get something from Apple's app store had to have a US account. Which made iPhones attractive to a very small segment of the population. In fact, in India, iPhones have a marketshare equivalent to that of the Lumia, although the latter may have fallen since Microsoft pulled the plug on the line.

So this move DOES look like Apple trying to create apps to service Indian customers. There isn't a shortage of apps servicing Western markets for Apple

Re:Indians making apps for indians

[JaredOfEuropa]

India has been recognized as a separate region in the App store for ages. Availability and price can be set separately for India, and pricing is in rupees. I've no doubt that popularity of iPhones in India is low, but that's due to its rather high price compared to the average disposable income. But many, many Indians in IT working overseas for a while seem to posess iPhones and iPads (new models too). Some get paid (partly) in € or $ while abroad, and they get to keep and spend some of that if they manage to save on their living expenses. In that case it appears that iStuff is pretty high on their wish list.

Sour Apples

[Anonymous Coward]

You know what Apple, let's do this.

let's all come to india because of xioami and hugo barra(the cuck from google).

Let's all realize that you are late to the Indian developer ecosystem as well as its market.

China, makes sense for you because people there value status symbols more over their own economic reality.
You have fucked India for so long for this, not to mention that Jobs hated India:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/what-steve-jobs-did-in-india-35-years-ago-225246

but, hey let's forget all of this and follow chinese and google both of which lead in innovation right

Re:Sour Apples

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it makes so much sense that an ordeal Steve went through in Indiran India of the 70s would shape what he'd do in the next millenium vis a vis a completely different country

So?

[Anonymous Coward]

So what?

Dead App Store

[Anonymous Coward]

The appstore is now even more dead than it was. To think, the new tv series Apple is making lampooning developers too.

Re:Dead App Store

[Anonymous Coward]

Dead? Every app out there IS available for iOS and Android. There are some apps that work on iPhones but not iPads, or vice versa: same for Android phones & tablets. But saying that the app store is dead says nothing.

Great. More shitty apps coming to the app store...

[Anonymous Coward]

...do we really need more shitty apps in the app store? We have enough already.

Get the hell out

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple should pack up their shit, & get the hell out of the USA; good riddance.

Foster iOS app development?

[DontBeAMoran]

Develop on what? iPads? Because Apple stopped caring about their Macs years ago.

Points at cow

[Anonymous Coward]

Hideki!

Re:TRUMP SAYS, NO, I WANT IMMUNITY!

[DontBeAMoran]

Not the games, not the games, not the games...

Glad to see

[trevc]

Glad to see Apple doing the needful

Seriously?

[ilsaloving]

Why? Because there arn't already enough low quality garbage apps on the store?

Thanks Little Timmy!

[Anonymous Coward]

You've collected your cash, now keep cashing in on the backs of those less fortunate!

Think crapcode

[thunderclees]

India is also famous for its fondness for inexpensive smartphones. Apple is anything but inexpensive.
So this about Apple trying to create a maggot farm for outsourcing the creation of crappy, badly written apps as if Apple Store does not have enough of these.

Re:Steve Jobs kept the indian cancer out of Apple

[CronoCloud]

That's no different from non-Indian CS guys, that attitude is universal. Read some open source project forums or visit some IRC channels.

Phone Me

[Anonymous Coward]

Call me when Apple opens a car accelerator, to foster car and pedestrian smartphone death development. In Banglalore, with a hot backup site in Autowa!

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/17/03/31/0013209/smartphones-may-be-to-blame-for-unprecedented-spike-in-pedestrian-deaths-says-report

Re: Curse of the Mud People

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent up: interesting