NEW DELHI: The Internet’s prognosis-in-chief Mary Meeker is out with her latest trends report and it does not paint a happy picture for Apple As per the Internet trends report, Indians, after Bangladeshis, pay the least amount of money for a smartphone. On an average an Indian pays just $158 for a smartphone, the lowest after Bangladesh.That cannot be a good sign for Apple whose cheapest smartphone currently ( iPhone 5S) costs $312 a piece in the US. That’s almost double of what an Indian would like to pay.Given the numbers, Tim Cook ’s visit to Sidhivinayak Temple does not seem all that pointless anymore. May be he knew something we didn’t.The 55-year-old CEO of the world’s largest company by market value recently came to India and went away without doing much about things.The smartphone maker has been growing thought a torrid time as iPhone sales in China and the US decline. The company recently, in its March quarter numbers, reported its first revenue decline in over 13 years while guiding for below par revenue growth in the coming quarters.That led to a selloff in its stock in the US, slashing its market capitalisation by close to $250 billion within weeks.The only market that showed growth for Apple was India.But, pricing is an issue for the trendsetting phone maker. It is counting on the status symbol syndrome of India’s rich and affluent but if Mary Meekr’s observations are anything to go by then it will be a long time before we see Apple being a dominant force in India’s smartphone market.One only hopes Tim Cook found his connection with God on that temple visit, as only he can help him now.Read Mary Meeker's full report here