Jobs plans India trip to launch center
updated 09:35 am EST, Tue March 14, 2006
Jobs plans India trip
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is likely to visit Bangalore, India in the first week of April, following reports that the company will build a R&D and tech support facility in the country. CIOL reports that Jobs will launch Apple's facility, which will remploy about 3000 people by 2007: "this is a rare visit for Jobs who is usually conservative in his travel plans. The only Asian country he has visited in his official capacity is Japan. Jobs has special affinity to India. He had spent four years in the 1970's as a 'hippie spiritual tourist' visiting holy places in the country. Jobs admires India as one of the fast growing economies in the world. The company currently accounts for just around four percent market share in India for its products."
