Apple Inc. opened its first flagship retailer in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the corporate’s rising aspirations to broaden within the nation it additionally hopes to show into a possible manufacturing hub. The firm’s CEO Tim Cook posed for pictures with a number of of the 100 or so Apple followers who had lined up exterior the sprawling 20,000-square-foot retailer in India’s monetary capital, Mumbai, its design impressed by the enduring black-and-yellow cabs distinctive to town. A second retailer will open Thursday within the nationwide capital, New Delhi. The tech big has been working in India for greater than 25 years, promoting its product by licensed retailers and the web site it launched a number of years in the past. But regulatory hurdles and the pandemic delayed its plans to open a flagship retailer. For the Cupertino, California-based firm, India’s sheer dimension makes the market particularly encouraging.