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Apple’s quiet pivot to India
As Donald Trump was preparing to take office for the first time in 2017, Priyank Kharge was busy making calls to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, from Bengaluru, the city known as India’s Silicon Valley. With the US president threatening to …