Jul 28, 2014

Indian IT success in the USA...but not in India

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The biggest technology company is Apple with a turnover and market Capitalisation value at $450 billion, achieved by the legendary Syrian Arab American, Steve Jobs. A lot of the success of the company presently is due to Indian engineers beavering away in the background, in the USA.

This technology success is not translated in India due to corruption, nepotisms and the mafia groups which are very significant in the Indian economy. Whilst China launches a Jihad against such corrupt groups, dealing with 30,000 government officials alone in the last few years, India celebrates its mafia's through cinema and politics.

India's butch gay PM belongs to this mafia group, with links to Israel and Western Intelligence. His two greatest political achievements thus far have been through terrorism against Indians in 2002, and 2014 in South India. The elite of India have the wrong priorities...and do not know how to harness the natural talents of the Indian genius....which go back 10,000 years.....the first nation to produce steel...nano technology....primitive ballistics...flying saucers......marshal arts/karate and far more.


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One in every 3 Apple engineers is Indian


India has become a major ingredient in Apple's secret sauce, and the scale may surprise many. It is estimated that a third of the $191-billion company's engineering staff is Indian, and that a large and increasing proportion of its enterprise software, service and support work is done by Indian IT vendors.

Apple filed 1,750 H-1B applications during the 10-year period 2001 to 2010, but the number increased sharply to 2,800 during 2011-13. US-based HfS Research that compiled the data says the majority of the H-1Bs would be Indians, indicating that the iPhone and iPad maker's dependence on Indian engineers has risen significantly in recent years.

"About one-third of Apple's engineering headcount consists of Indians who are either on H-1B or on Green Card," said Pareekh Jain, principal analyst at HfS Research.

HfS arrives at that conclusion looking at figures Apple disclosed in 2012, when it said it had 47,000 people working directly for it in the US, of which 7,700 were customer support operators, and 27,350 worked retail in Apple Stores, leaving about 12,000 as engineers, designers, marketers and other white-collar tech product workers.

HfS Research also finds that Apple works with at least five India-based IT vendors — including four large firms and one small firm — and the scope of the work they do has been rising.

"Apple's outsourcing strategy can be described in three words as 'outsourcing for growth'. The scope of outsourcing work has been enlarged in the last two or three years. From 2013, Apple has dedicated IT outsourcing vendor managers based out of Bangalore who are acting as the bridge between Apple's IT managers and India based IT vendors," said Jain.

HfS Research declined to name the IT vendors. TCS, Infosys and Wipro are known to do work for Apple. Apple is seen to be among Infosys' top 10 clients. Two years ago, Infosys rented a 1.4-lakh sqft office space near its headquarters in Electronics City to house employees who would work exclusively for Apple. The building had a capacity to initially house 1,400 people.