Bollywood Star Shah Rukh Khan to be Apple's Indian Ambassador

So glad to see Tim's trip wasn't in vain. /sarcasm

India is cautious of a company that seems to take advantage of every country it does business with.

What is an apple ambassador ? Just innovate , and make awesome products, enough of this celebrity pitches to push sales.

Apple is going down the Beats track, make so so products and invest in celebrities to push them, worked a charm pushing out junk headphones at first. And beats has not innovated anything in years either .

I am waiting for a Bollywood dance style commercial as a result of this collaboration. That would be kinda awesome. :D

Ambassadors help sell product. Need more reasons than that?

I remember back when Apple fans were proud of how the products could "sell themselves" unlike the competition that needed to beg you and try very hard to convince you to buy theirs instead.

http://www.netpaths.net/blog/steve-jobs-apple-doesn’t-do-market-research/

So yes. Apple now needs ambassadors to help sell product. And that's a shame.

India has 1.27B people. Apple are going after those humans with another human.

So India has 1.3 billion people to help Apple grow even more? 60% of them are living on $4 a day. India only has a middle class of around 300 million, but Indian middle class is American poor. The Indian middle class makes $16 to $20 per day. That's 300 million people. There are another 600 million that make less than that.

Apple trying to manufacture in India with their well-known relations with Chinese labor sure looks great for the growth of India, right? Americans are clamoring for a $15 hourly wage while Indians making $20 a day are the Indian middle class, so we can be sure that Indian manufacturing workers making the iPhones will be getting that "Indian middle class" pay.

Apple still (hopelessly?) trying to get India to allow it to open stores and sell refurbished phones. Wouldn't it be great if Apple spent the time & money spent lobbying India on R&D for more innovative products instead?

Your comment makes no sense.
1. A brand ambassador can help you sell more phones (for ex) through your existing channels (in India and other countries). Its not always about lobbying for opening stores.
2. Apple can spend time on R&D and on lobbying at the same time. It's not exactly a 1-person company.

In summary, your comment makes no sense.
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India is cautious of a company that seems to take advantage of every country it does business with.

Or it could be the laws pushed by the country on all foreign entrants....but let's go with the "Apple is evil and the world is cautious" narrative. Makes much more sense that way.