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Apple onboard with India for high-speed trains

Posted July 21, 2017 | Apple | India | Mac | News | Trains and Railroads


India’s government hopes Apple can help make the country’s trains run faster.
Photo: Ankur Yadav/Flickr CC

Apple is eager to get business in India on a fast track – plans that include partnering with the government on high-speed rail.

Apple reportedly is among a group of technology firms that will help India’s railways increase train speeds up to as much as 600 kilometers per hour.

A story published this morning on the website Business Today quotes India’s railway minister as “already” working with Apple on technology that will raise train speeds on its two busiest corridors, Delhi to Mumbai and Delhi to Kolkata.

“Technology will not only be imported in India but will be co-developed in India,” Suresh Prabhu told Business Today.

Passenger trains seem like an odd fit for Apple, but Cupertino has made no secret of its plans to increase iPhone sales in India, considered the largest and one of the last remaining growing smartphone markets.

Apple has been negotiating with the government to open Apple Stores in India. Apple opened a research center in Bangalore and recently began making the iPhone SE in India. Apple has created jobs there in hardware and app development and has reduced prices on some iPhone models to make them more affordable to customers.

Johnny Evans, editor-in-chief of the blog Apple Must, understands Apple going to great lengths to raise its profile in India but scratches his head over what the company can do for train speeds.

He had a couple of interesting ideas, one of which involves Apple’s work in self-driving cars.

“Mobile devices and the implications of software on transportation are key areas of interest to the company,” Evans wrote. “This begs the question, ‘Has Apple figured out how to apply the self-driving vehicle technologies it has been looking at to improve other forms of transportation?’

“Or is Apple’s contribution some developer experience, some iOS devices and a little help from its Maps team? It will certainly be interesting to find out in the years ahead, assuming the Indiana government minister hasn’t simply been misunderstood.”

Source: Business Today and Apple Must



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