Apple Eyes India Expansion With iOS Development Center
Apple is turning its attention to India with a new initiative intended to spur iOS development there.
The Design and Development Accelerator is expected to open early next year in Bengaluru—the Silicon Valley of India—which has more than 1 million people working in the tech sector.
"India is home to one of the most vibrant and entrepreneurial iOS development communities in the world," according to Apple chief Tim Cook, who traveled to India to announce the news. "With the opening of this new facility in Bengaluru, we're giving developers access to tools which will help them create innovative apps for customers around the world."
Weekly briefings and one-on-one app reviews with Apple experts will be supplemented with guidance on its Swift programming language used to build apps for iOS, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.
The news comes just three weeks after Apple posted its first-ever year-over-year decline in iPhone sales, and first revenue drop in more than a decade. Cook then hit the road to court important international markets, like China, where Cupertino just invested $1 billion in Uber rival Didi Chuxing.
Reports indicate, meanwhile, that Apple will open three of its popular retail stores in India by the end of 2017.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.