Niall O'Connor is not a household name, but for Infosys and Wipro he was the most important person on the planet when he visited Bangalore in late January. As the chief information officer (CIO) of Apple Inc, he chooses which clients get software outsourcing orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the revered American company, and the senior most officials at Infosys and Wipro were making sure that O'Connor got the 21-gun salute. It wasn't only about the money for them: just working with Apple is regarded as a badge of honour. Almost maniacally secretive, the maker of iPhones and iPads outsources software application development and maintenance work worth about $100 million (490 crore) to Indian companies, about a fifth of its total global outsourcing spending. It is now looking to quadruple the amount it spends in India, making it all the more covetous for Infosys and Wipro. Apple, like its co-founder the late Steve Jobs, has had something of a love-hate relationship with India. Jobs travelled to India on a spiritual quest in 1974 but never returned to the country. Apple started a development centre in Bangalore in 2006 but closed it within a few months.
Source: Economic Times
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