Apple has registered strong sales in the first quarter of this year in India. The company recorded its best quarterly sales of laptops and tablets in the region, as per a new report.
According to a Canalys report (Via QuartzIndia), the Cupertino based giant saw a great sales in the first three months of this year. The report revealed that the company’s overall PC sales reached 208 million units, which is a figure nearly double that of the sale period from a year prior. Canalys added that the iPhone maker’s growth in India was “largely aided by the availability of its official online store.”
For those unaware, the company officially launched its official online store in the country in the second half of last year. This launch was labelled as apt and timely by certain experts and the brand’s CEO Tim Cook credited the online store for the company’s robust iPhone sales in India last year. Although, keep in mind that the growth recorded by various OEMs isn’t just due to a strong performance in 2021, but rather a slump that was faced back in 2020.
Despite the supply chain for various vendors being crippled in mid 2020, the overall PC sales in India, including tablets, surged by 72 percent year on year. This figure reached 4 million units between the period of January and March 2021. The market saw a growth due to the growing trend of working from home and online education becoming more common. But Apple did state that its MacBook and iPad production are currently facing delays due to the world facing a major shortage of semiconductors.
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