Apple’s connection with India dates to a time when the company had not even launched. During the mid-1970s, Steve Jobs visited India, looking for ‘spiritual enlightenment’ and lived here for almost seven months. Reportedly, his experience wasn’t great but one of the takeaways was that his design sense was greatly influenced by the “simplicities of Zen Buddhism” and “intuition”.
Jobs told Walter Isaacson, who wrote a biography on him, “The main thing I’ve learned is intuition, that the people in India are not just pure rational thinkers, that the great spiritual ones also have an intuition.” After returning from India, Jobs, along with his friend Steve Wozniak, founded Apple Computer in 1976.