Apple’s first store in India: A promising frontier for the tech giant

Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, visited India this week to open the company’s first two Apple stores there: The biggest public company in the world is finally opening its first retail outlets in the world’s most populous country.

Roaring crowds of would-be customers greeted him in Mumbai on Tuesday at a sleek glass-and-timber flatiron of a storefront, called Apple BKC, in the Bandra Kurla Complex. On Thursday, Cook will travel to New Delhi to open a second store, Apple Saket, at the center of the capital’s biggest mall.