Today and for many years, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is selling your products in The India through third-party stores and distributors. Apparently, Tim Cook and company have already decided that it is a good time to open their own Apple Stores in the country and the Indian unit of the company has submitted a request to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP for its acronym in English) asking free way to open its own chain of physical stores in India.
Currently, Apple is unable to open its own stores in India due to different regulations your government. However, the country's government liberalized foreign direct investment for the sale of a single brand in November last year, now making it possible for Apple and other tech giants to open their stores in India. In the case of Apple, DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant confirmed application saying that "We have received the request from Apple. We are examining it«.
At this time it is impossible to know what investment Apple will do in India, but they have already taken the first step to be able to sell their products there in their own stores. It is unlikely, if not impossible, that they will open as many stores as in China, where the Cupertino people hope to have 40 stores by the end of 2016, but every project begins with the first stone.
As for the number of physical stores that will open, the only thing we can think of is that will depend on success Apple there. In Spain, for example, Apple Stores are opening little by little in areas where they know they will work, either by number of sales (which may well be online or depending on contact information) or inhabitants, but still there are many areas where they wait with open arms. In any case, news like today's show that Apple's expansion is slow but steady.