Apple teams up with flipkart to sell iphone 7 in india

Apple teams up with flipkart to sell iphone 7 in india


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A customer holds a newly purchased iPhone 7 Plus smartphone. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has signed a deal with Indian online retailer Flipkart to sell its latest iPhone 7


handset, Indian news site _BGR.IN _ has reported. Unlike previous iPhone releases,when it used third-party sellers, Flipkart will source the latest versions of the smartphone directly from


Apple. Apple will launch the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in India on October 7. Prices for the iPhone 7 will come in at 60,000 rupees ($900) for the 32GB model with the iPhone 7 Plus, on the


other hand, starting at 72,000 for the 32GB handset, _BGR.IN_ reports. The online retail space in India is a crowded one. Flipkart has a 45 percent market share in terms of gross merchandise


value (GMV) – a key metric for online retailers – while rivals Snapdeal comes in with 26 percent and Amazon with 12 percent, according to research by Morgan Stanley. You can read the full


report here.