Posted on 12/27/2018 5:38:10 AM PST by Cronos
Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the country, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Importantly, Foxconn will be assembling the most expensive models, such as devices in the flagship iPhone X family, the source said, potentially taking Apple's business in India to a new level
Foxconn, which already makes phones for Xiaomi Corp in India, will invest 25 billion Indian rupees ($356 million) to expand the plant, including investment in iPhone production, Tamil Nadu's Industries Minister M C Sampath told Reuters.
The investment may create as many as 25,000 jobs, he added.
Another source also said Foxconn planned to assemble iPhones in India, in a move that could help both it and Apple to limit the impact of a trade war between the United States and China ..
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Now idiot Apple worshipers will be able to spend exorbitant amounts of money on phones that spy for BOTH China and India.
Yes!
Much better partner for the US.
As China loses business due to their bad practices other developing nations will be happy to take up the slack. And the US will benefit as well.
Too bad they couldn;t build ‘em here in Little India or as its known locally as Slickcon Valley.
Racist! European Whites should have to make iPhones too!
I thought they were going to make them in Wisconsin. Did Ryano screw it up?
And assemblers: Foxconn maintains factories in countries across the world, including Thailand, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines.
Silicon valley is now more about design, software development etc rather than manufacturing. Remember that as manufacturing gets increasingly automated, the number of jobs decrease
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