However, I saw an article on Digital Inspiration that Apple is hit with a disappointing sales in India…

Disappointing Apple iPhone 3G Sales in India

Disappointing Apple iPhone 3G Sales in India

According to the article, the high price tag is the reason to explain for slow sales of iPhone 3G in India. Well, I do not know about India market enough. Maybe the price tag is indeed too high for the general public to take on. I will argue that the India mobile operators is not putting in enough effort to promote the phone.

Many phone operators are actually subsidizing the iPhone by locking down the subscriber wtih a contract. So, I would say the high success rate in many countries are contributed by the high subsidy given by the mobile operators. There are many people here in Singapore got the iPhone 3G for FREE simply because they are a heavy mobile phone user by subscribing to a high end mobile plan. Unfortunately, SingTel has annouced recently their profit margin was hurted due to heavy subsidy of the iPhone 3G.

In view of these, maybe India Mobile operators are the smartest in the world NOT to subsidize the iPhone… ;-)