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The iPhone Duo's India price gap isn't about GST
The iPhone Duo costs ₹1.09 lakh more in India than a dollar conversion suggests. The usual India-tax story doesn't explain that gap. This does.
The column · By Swami Guru
Known Issue
In software, a known issue is the bug everyone has agreed to live with. This column is about the other kind: the things in Apple, Google, Meta, Android, iOS and the apps you open every day that have been wrong long enough to count as a decision rather than an oversight. The morning brief covers what happened today. This covers what has been true for months and still is.
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Format: ColumnScope: Apple, Google, Meta, Android, iOS, apps and the platforms in betweenCadence: When something is worth sayingWritten by Swami Guru (1 pieces)
01 / The trigger
Not today’s news
The brief is set off by something that happened this morning. A column is set off by something that has been true for months.
02 / The money
Plain about the money
Who benefits from the thing staying broken is usually the answer, and usually the part nobody prints.
03 / The read
The operator’s read
Eleven years leading product inside large publishers, which is mostly an education in why obvious fixes do not ship.
04 / The ending
A verdict
Buy it, skip it, or wait. Not “it depends”.
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The iPhone Duo costs ₹1.09 lakh more in India than a dollar conversion suggests. The usual India-tax story doesn't explain that gap. This does.
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