Apple boss hails India’s ‘incredible energy’ as flagship store opens in Mumbai

Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, reacts after seeing an old Macintosh Classic machine brought by a visitor during the opening of the first Apple flagship store in Mumbai (Rafiq Maqbool/AP)

Apple has opened its first flagship store in India in a move that highlights the company’s aspirations to expand in a country which it hopes to turn into a manufacturing hub.

Chief executive Tim Cook posed for photos with a few of the 100 or so Apple fans who had lined up outside the sprawling 20,000sq ft store in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. The shop’s design inspired by the iconic black-and-yellow cabs unique to the city.