Tim Cook's trip to China and India this week is being more fruitful for the latter country than for China. Cook traveled to China to meet with the country's authorities to seek a solution to the problems with the country's censorship after having seen iTunes movies and iBooks shutting down. But he also traveled to confirm the $ 1.000 billion invasion of the Didi company, Uber's counterpart in China. Subsequently, he went to India to meet with the country's prime minister and finalize the company's future plans.
As we informed you a few weeks ago, Apple plans to create a development center in Hyderabad, to be able to develop the services offered through the Maps application. As Cook reported yesterday, the center will accommodate almost 4.000 employees and the construction of the center will end in 2017.
On the other hand, Cook has also confirmed the creation of a new center for app developers in Bangalore, where you want to concentrate the maximum number of developers to dedicate themselves to creating applications for the Apple platform. This program is intended for the tens of thousands of developers in the country. This center, unlike the previous one, is scheduled to open at the beginning of 2017.
A team of Apple engineers will work with local developers to show them the best practices when creating applications and guide them in the design in addition to helping them to introduce improvements in the quality and operation of the applications. With a population close to 1.250 billion inhabitants, India is currently the best market for all manufacturers of mobile devices and the guys from Cupertino do not want to let it escape even though the government does not allow them to sell second-hand iPhone in the country, as it would hurt local manufacturers, something the Indian government highly values.