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Apple Intelligence coming to India in April, confirms CEO Tim Cook

Apple’s new CFO Kevan Parekh said the company’s “record revenue and strong operating margins drove EPS to a new all-time record with double-digit growth and allowed us to return over $30 billion to shareholders”.

People gather around a table of iPhones at an Apple Store in US. (Photo: AP Photo)

Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Apple Intelligence will be rolling out in localised English to the Indian market in April along with a slew of other languages. He was speaking to analysts after the company released its financial results for the fiscal 2025 first quarter ended December 28, 2024 posting quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 per cent year over year.

“We are working hard to take Apple Intelligence even further. In April, we’re bringing Apple Intelligence to more languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, as well as localized English to Singapore and India,” Cook said.

Cook also said the iPhone active installed base grew to an all-time high in every geographic segment. “We also set an all-time record for upgraders. According to a recent survey from Kantar, during the December quarter, iPhone was a top-selling model in the US, urban China, India, the UK, France, Australia, and Japan.”

Apple’s new CFO Kevan Parekh cited Zomato’s deployment of Macs to underline the increasing enterprise adoption of the company’s products and services. “We also see strong demand in our emerging markets. For example, Zomato, a leading food ordering and delivery company in India, has deployed thousands of Macs across their workforce to foster innovation,” he said.

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In response to a question on robust growth in emerging markets, Cook said: “We have great results in a number of emerging markets, and as you know from past calls, particularly keen on India. India set a December-quarter record during the quarter, and we are opening more stores there, we’ve announced that we’re going to open four new stores there. The iPhone was the top selling model in India for the quarter, and it’s the second largest smartphone market in the world and the third largest for PCs and tablets, and so there’s a huge market, and we have very modest share in these markets, and so I think there’s lots of upside there, and that’s just one of the emerging markets.”

Parekh said the company’s “record revenue and strong operating margins drove EPS to a new all-time record with double-digit growth and allowed us to return over $30 billion to shareholders”.