▶ iPhone sales push faces resistance

Apple Inc.’s latest attempt to crack the Indian smartphone market by selling used phones is meeting a wall of resistance. The iPhone maker is seeking permission to become the first company to import and sell used phones into the country. But a growing number of industry executives are warning government officials that the move would make a farce of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s program to encourage local manufacturing. India, as the world’s second largest mobile population, represents a vast untapped opportunity for Apple, which has less than two per cent share of a market in which four-fifths of phones cost less than $150 US.