Apple Inc bets big on India as it opens first flagship store

Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the company's growing aspirations to expand in the country it also hopes to turn into a potential manufacturing hub. The company's CEO Tim Cook posed for photos with Apple fans who had lined up outside the store in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

A second store will open Thursday in the national capital, New Delhi.Apple first began manufacturing from India in 2017 with its iPhone SE and has since continued to assemble a number of iPhone models from the country.