Apple's new India BKC store opening was met by massive crowds

Apple has marked the opening of its first-ever Apple Store in India with photographs of the crowds of buyers and fans as they get to enter Apple BKC.

Tim Cook and Deirdre O'Brien opened the new store in Mumbai early on Tuesday morning, and were met with a crowd reported to be 300-strong. The very first buyers, and the keenest Apple fans, have now been shown in a series of Apple's photographs to mark the occasion.

Some people had travelled across India to be there for the opening

This is the kind of crowd you used to see for every iPhone launch, but now it's reserved for special new stores. Not only had some people pictured come to Mumbai from all over India, others had camped out overnight to be first in line.

It's not known what this first customer bought

This was Apple BKC's first customer — and so it was Apple's first-ever customer in an Indian retail store.

Hopefully he wasn't expecting to get that 1987 Macintosh SE serviced

Many among the crowd brought old Apple devices, in some cases because they hoped to get Tim Cook to autograph them.

You could always buy everything Apple online, but Stores have customer service

Of course most people were there to buy new Apple products, but there was also a performance by a local band to enjoy.

A local band performed for the opening day

Once you'd bought your new Apple device, there were plenty of opportunities to take selfies.

Look at that - taking a selfie landscape. Good on him.

If it looks like the entire crowd spent time taking selfies of their smiling faces, there's nothing wrong with that. But there was at least one person who Apple decided to photograph from the back.

Hopefully he can grow his hair if he ever switches to Android

Apple's first-ever store in India will be followed later this week by its second, Apple Saket, in New Delhi.