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Google appoints former Apple executive Mitul Shah as MD for India smartphone business

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Google has appointed former Apple India government Mitul Shah because the managing director for its units and providers enterprise in India, because the tech big intensifies its deal with scaling its Pixel smartphone gross sales within the nation.

In his new function, Shah will lead Pixel’s gross sales and enlargement methods throughout India. Previous to this he served as the top of client gross sales for Apple in India.

In a LinkedIn put up on November 27, Shah wrote, “To everybody who has requested me in the previous few weeks, why ‘change’ from Apple? This isn’t a change. It is a continuation of the mission of placing the world’s greatest know-how within the palms of fellow countrymen and ladies.”

“It is an honour to be a part of an organization that is on the forefront of innovation, and I am significantly thrilled to be engaged on a product that has the potential to place the magic and energy of AI within the pockets of thousands and thousands of individuals throughout my beloved nation,” he stated. “Pixel is not only one other machine. It is the platform designed to place the immense energy and prospects of AI in everybody’s pocket.”

Earlier this year, Google started delivery regionally produced Pixel smartphones from its India-based manufacturing traces. In October 2023, Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vp, introduced the corporate’s collaboration with worldwide and home companions to assemble Pixel devices within the country.


“That is an early step in direction of increasing the manufacturing right here to satisfy the native demand for Pixel units,” Osterloh stated on the time.

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