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Apple has stumbled a great deal in the Indian market. If it gets its Indian strategy right, it's looking at billions more in revenue.

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They'll need phones with two SIM cards. Every Indian IT person I've met in India always look at me with disdain, but also :), when I tell them I can only have one SIM in my phone.

Apple seems to be moving towards virtual SIMs so that may be coming soon.

one for friends and one for jobs ?

Most use one sim as their primary sim while the other sim is the one which has the cheapest data plan.

Number portability came to India late so having two sims gave you best of both the worlds and now people are just used to having two sims.

I always wondered where that two-sim feature request comes from. I really only need one.

Absolutely not. I don't know what it looks like from outside, but India is quite poor, where at max One plus succeeded.

They absolutely are. Sales have actually declined, as has their share of the premium smartphone market

https://qz.com/india/1328590/apple-struggles-in-india-as-iph...

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