"CCI investigators issued a report in 2024 that Apple exploited its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary in-app purchase system."
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Mac sales grew 24% year over year, iPad sales by 40%.
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"The iPhone maker’s contract manufacturers account for roughly three-fourths of the country’s smartphone exports, helping transform India into one of the world’s fastest-growing handset export hubs."
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"The company assembled about 55 million iPhones in India in 2025, up from 36 million a year earlier."
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3 months ago"Across the full-year of 2025, Apple’s market share of shipments rose to a record 9%."
This may be the "beginning of an uphill climb." — A "person with knowledge of the situation"
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5 months ago"India's highly unpredictable regulatory framework presents constant challenges for business that values predictability," — Mishi Choudhary, Software Freedom Law Center
"Its not only like taking a sledgehammer, this is like a double-barrel gun." — Name withheld
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This is not the first time that Apple has had to deal with preinstalled software. In 2021, it capitulated and agreed to install mandatory apps on devices sold in Russia to comply with laws passed in 2019.
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iOS accounted for 17% of global sales in Q3 2025, up by 1 percentage point from last year.
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