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

Posted by msmash on from the for-india dept.

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.

33 comments

  1. TRUMP SAYS, NO, I WANT IMMUNITY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    So what can Flynn offer now?

    1. Re:TRUMP SAYS, NO, I WANT IMMUNITY! by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

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

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  2. Apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

    APPS! MOOOOOOOOOO!

  3. Indians making apps for indians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

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

    1. Re:Indians making apps for indians by mjwx · · Score: 1

      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.

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    2. Re:Indians making apps for indians by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

      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.

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    3. Re:Indians making apps for indians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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

    4. Re:Indians making apps for indians by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 1

      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.

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  4. Curse of the Mud People by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Just why are muslims the mortal enemy of decency and civilisation? Simple. Look to their genes.

    Genetically muslims are largely of Negro ancestry. If you take the time to observe the police mug shots of your typical muslim you will notice the wide flared nostrils, negroid "liver" lips, negroid eyes in shape and coloration, and lazy "sleepy" drooping eyelids. Generally a muslim's skin is slightly lighter than a "chocolate drop" Negro, but nonetheless, a brown color usually associated with the Negro race. Both the muslim, and its darker kin have their roots in the African continent.

    Also notice the obvious genetic mutations on most muslims--peculiar malformed ears, oddly shaped skulls, asymmetric arrangement of the facial features. Most muslims are inbred. Not just within their "religion" but within their "tribe". When these symptoms and deformities are observed among ordinary non-muslim humans, it is generally a sign of some sort of genetic defect or mental retardation. Take a moment to study the features of the 9/11 hijackers, and it is patently obvious that these animals all exhibit the classic muslim deformities.

    Muslim tribes are composed of groups of 50 to 100 individuals who share a common name and genetic heritage. All marriage occurs from within these muslim tribes, i.e. intra-marriage, and is between first cousins. However, under some circumstances in muslim tradition, it's even allowable for a mother to marry her son, or a father to marry his daughter, as shocking and as alien as that may be to the non-muslim world.

    Although in civilized societies marriage of this kind has long been outlawed, within the muslim world marriage between first cousins is the norm. This only compounds the basic genetic defects of the muslim race. And like all compound interest, the effects of the compounding over generation after generation serve to amplify the deformities. In effect a genetic monster, both mental and physical, has been created. The muslim is a deformed beast more suitable for the Island of Dr. Moreau, than a being fit for human society.

    Can a muslim change its barbarism? Can a leopard change its spots? It's in the genes, stupid!

    1. Re:Curse of the Mud People by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Shut up, your Russian troll. Actually -- d'ya know why you are called Slaves? Because the Arabs harvested you and sold you as... you guess it!

      So your genes are TRUMPed by those of the Arabs.

    2. Re: Curse of the Mud People by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod parent up: interesting

  5. Sour Apples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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

    1. Re:Sour Apples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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

    2. Re:Sour Apples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Steve Jobs hating India is part of the reason Apple was so great. Once a company embraces the street shitters, it's all over for them.

    3. Re:Sour Apples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      They need an app that interfaces with GPS to find DESIGNATED DEFECATION DRIVEWAYS.

  6. So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So what?

  7. Cow pee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    The federal gov't cow pee research institution needs an app.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/asia/india-cow-urine-research/

    Please someone build an app to locate the freshest cow pee. There's so many cows in the streets of bangalore eating the finest trash. I need the pee.

  8. Everything you need to know about India by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Everything I need to know about India, I learned from the Chinese.

  9. Dead App Store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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

    1. Re:Dead App Store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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.

  10. Great. More shitty apps coming to the app store... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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

  11. Get the hell out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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

  12. yo0 Fail I7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    bunch of re74rded

  13. Foster iOS app development? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

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

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  14. Points at cow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hideki!

  15. Glad to see by trevc · · Score: 1

    Glad to see Apple doing the needful

  16. Seriously? by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

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

  17. Steve Jobs kept the indian cancer out of Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Tim Cook is going to fuck Apple up if he keeps going down this path...a company that fancies itself innovate shouldn't be looking for the cheapest shittiest labor possible.

    1. Re:Steve Jobs kept the indian cancer out of Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      I worked with some Indian "CS" guys. Completely clueless and lazy. They all have an attitude problem: "no one will know", "someone else will fix it", "who cares", "not my problem", "it's good enough" "I'm won't be here when they find out". Just a lazy, shiftless, clueless bunch with a turd world attitude.

    2. Re:Steve Jobs kept the indian cancer out of Apple by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

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

  18. Thanks Little Timmy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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

  19. Think crapcode by thunderclees · · Score: 1

    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.

  20. Phone Me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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