India, Aug. 26 -- Apple will begin writing the next chapter of its ambitious plans for India, with the opening of two more retail stores in early September. The tech giant's upcoming official retail presence in Bengaluru and Pune, which open their doors on September 2 and September 4, respectively, will join Delhi's Apple Saket and Mumbai's Apple BKC stores. This underlines Apple's sharpened focus on India, a point CEO Tim Cook has regularly emphasised.

The timing works out well for Apple, which is expected to unveil the next iPhone lineup, tentatively dubbed the iPhone 17 series, and is expected to go on sale next month. For Apple in India, official retail stores are the final piece of the jigsaw that relies heavily on a curated experie...