India is not a market for evolutionary products like iPad. It is a market for revolutionary products. iPod was a revolutionary product but it clicked in India only after it went through iterations. By the time iPod reached India many fakes were in business. Just like Xerox meant photocopy, iPod now means a music player. It doesn’t matter if it is from Apple.Apple’s iPhone went through the same fate. Though there were no iPhone fakes, not many iPhones were sold. That strategy was immediately dubbed as a skimming strategy from Apple. It was testing the markets. Well, I believed it the first time. It’s subsequent releases of 3G and 3G S have seen the same response. It no longer is a skimming strategy but it was targeting just the cream.And I don’t like the fact that Apple always gives India a step-motherly treatment. But this time it is in the best interest of Apple to skip India. At least the first revision of iPad. If Apple doesn’t skip, India should skip iPad.read more > AC