--- Amol Hatwar amol@hatwar.org wrote:

*chop*

Anything "Apple" is best bought in the US. AFAIK Apples have very less penetration in India just because they follow the same pricing structure world-wide without taking PPP into account. *chop*

AFAIK Apples have very less penetration anywhere in the world. :>) As far as PPP is concerned, i doubt that even the other manufacturers really follow that. As far as the major chunk (the actual raw materials) are concerned, they are not made in India with indian raw materials. Or to be more precise, even if they were made in india with indian inputs, the costing would work out much more. Ok, so India has advantage of labor, but it hardly helps when your product is to be built on a highly automated assembly line and labor is not much of a factor. you can still manage to find IBM Compatible desktop PCs in the US cheaper than the assembled ones in India. I think it's more cost price + margin than PPP as the driving point.

Unless ofcourse, we are gauranteed uninteruppted cheap power, and electricity Transmission losses (Currently at 33% conservative estimates) are minimized, taxes are multiple surcharges arereduced yada yada. then maybe we can manufacture components in house and thus be more in line with PPP that relying on imports.

even after all that, i fear the taiwanese will still kick our butts big time. they simply rock when it comes to churning out these things.

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