Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer has postponed his first official visit to Bangalore, India that was originally scheduled for April to September 2006. Recruiting for the Apple’s “R&D center” and technical support facility are currently ongoing. Jobs is said to want Apple’s “R&D center” in Bangalore to be functional visiting the facilities, according to a report from CyberMedia News.
Apple has plans to hire approximately 3,000 people in India by 2007.
MacDailyNews Note: “R&D center” is CyberMedia News’ term, not ours. It is our understanding that the Bangalore project is a “technical support facility” and have not heard of any “R&D center” component outside of this CyberMedia News report.
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R&D moved to India???
“Designed by Apple in India. Assembled in China.”
Looks great eh?
WWDC speakers are already hard to understand, what with their outrageous French accents…
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“I phart in your general direction!”
As long as Apple doesn’t turn into “Dull”, I’ll be happy.
If Apple turn’s into Dull, and the stock goes up 100 fold… I’ll be VERY happy. You silly English k-nnnnnigget!
MW=more
More money for me!
Hopefully, Steve is staying home to keep pushing the Mac forward. We NEED ProMacs and Pro Apps NOW!
Those Bangalores are nasty.
The Mondochiwan sure found that out the hard way.
Yeah, i’ve read (a couple weeks ago) it is supposed to be both R&D and Technical Support. The “R&D” is most likely software (perhaps firmware). Could be for new consumer products.
For what it’s worth: Apple used to develop some of its software in Singapore (did this while i was working at Apple circa the late 80’s early 90’s). The Singapore R&D was mostly related to manufacturing (ROM’s) and diagnostic code, not end-user products, per se.
I just hope when I call for Apple’s technical support that I dont get connected to India with someone speaking lame english of which i wont understand just so Apple can cut some costs. It wont be the only thing they’ll be cutting.
It is for the iPhone SERVICE silly – and everyone knows that this is coming later now.
I have also seen several comments about R&D Center, mainly from the Indian Press.
It’s the new American way – support the economies of other countries instead of our own. Even President Bush thinks it’s a good idea, and he is a goddamned genius.
I live in Mumbai which is not too far from Bangalore.
I just wish they would open an apple store here, or do something to bring us cheaper macs! The prices here are ridiculous. You can get a mac officially through a reseller but at a 25%-30% premium. The only other option is to buy it from a shady greymarkey dealer, but thats without a box and some funky stains on it!
India is a tremendous market for apple. Especially if they were to release an Indian iTunes music store. Bollywood is a crazy industry here, and iPods are popping up everywhere.
I’ve managed to convert a couple of people here to macs, but if it was more affordable or at the same retail price like everywhere else, i’m sure it would take off.
I don’t Indian call centers for US products…just so long as they put the call centers for Indian products in South Carolina…