up musk owned starlink indian arm of spacex for taking prebookings without any licence or authorisation to offer satellite broadband services in india starlink had to refund the 99 rs 7400 approx it had collected as deposits from each of the 7000odd indian citizens who had prebooked its upcoming broadband fromspace services following which the companys head of india operations sanjay bhargava resignedproblems similar to applemusks india problems are similar to what apple faced when it wanted to enter the indian market back in 2017 the then commerce minister nirmala sitharaman had rejected apples demand for import duty concessions on capital equipment components and consumables as a condition to set up a manufacturing base in india sitaraman had also rejected the companys request for a relaxation on the 30 per cent local sourcing condition for foreign direct investment in singlebrand retail stores in three years apple notched a 68 per cent jump in iphone sales in 2020 while in the first three months of 2021 the iphone 11 and the iphone 12 were the topselling premium handsets this helped apple capture nearly a third of the premium marketapple started by assembling and manufacturing iphones locally devoting itself with the make in india programme following which it began expanding its retail presence it then began to gain the market share by lowering prices either through domestic manufacturing or by sacrificing margins the company had put together an india team in 2018 and lobbied with the government through negotiations for three years to convince india to tweak fdi rules for singlebrand retailwith inputs from agencies