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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.

11 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. 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!

  2. 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 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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  3. 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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  4. Re:TRUMP SAYS, NO, I WANT IMMUNITY! by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

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

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

    Glad to see Apple doing the needful

  6. Seriously? by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.