sree

There is some necessary context missing here. Indian govt has nothing against Apple or america, this has more to do with China.

The problem India has is that there is a huge trade deficit with china (i.e. India imports significantly more from china than exports to china in the ratio of almost 1:5). And this is increasing further (though at a slower rate than before due to govt efforts). This trade deficit causes havoc in the country triggering inflation, depreciating currency etc. The main reason for this deficit used to be - mobiles, toys and other electronics. The first two have been taken care of - India is now second largest manufcturer of mobiles, and toy manufacturing is also significantly increased.

But the other electronics, with laptops being a major component, is something the govt is looking to balance out a little now.

The whole recycling process is the biggest scam around. People keep passing it on from contractors to sub-contractors with legal indemnities, until it reaches someone small enough, in some country where the laws are not stringent. That's all there is to it. Those guys just dump it anywhich place they can like garbage dumps, rivers, seas etc. etc. There isn't a biggest sham around.

Let me tell you how these things work in chinese companies. 

For those uninitiated, Huawei basically copied cisco code and made a competing router and became the largest router company in the world. 

I had a friend working at Huawei a few years ago. They were facing some critical bug in the router code. My friend and rest of the team figured out the issue, and suggested a particular fix. The way it worked is, a only-chinese 'architect' team would have to approve that fix. Two days later they respond back with a different way to fix that issue, and ask the team to implement that. When these folks checked, they found that the bug had been fixed this way at cisco. It seemed like this 'architect' team had some kind of back-channel into the cisco development team (possibly through another chinese developer there), and when required they would just pull up the code and thus stayed in sync.

Its a chinese company, they will send all the private data to chinese govt. Of that we can be sure. 

22july2013 said:

The government of India is acting like a ghost, and should remember this: Laaton Ke Bhoot Baaton Se Nahi Maante.

your comment makes no sense.

Is it still going to use the lightning connector? So iPad mini, Air and Pro use USB-C and the ipad used the lightning connector? Who is making these decisions at apple?