Apple doubles India iPhone production to $14 billion as it shifts away from China: Report

CNBC via MSN ^ | 04/10/2024 | Ashley Capoot

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• Apple produced $14 billion worth of iPhones in India over the last fiscal year, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday.
• The company has been pushing to diversify its supply chain as relations between the U.S. and China have soured.
• Apple now makes around 14% of its iPhones in India, which is double the amount it produced there last year, the report said.

Apple produced $14 billion worth of iPhones in India over the last fiscal year, a sign of the company's continued effort to manufacture more devices outside of China, a report from Bloomberg said Wednesday.

As relations between the U.S. and China have soured, Apple has worked to diversify its supply chain by expanding production in countries like Vietnam and India. It's a big shift for the iPhone maker, which has historically relied on China for manufacturing. Apple now makes around 1 in 7, or 14%, of its iPhones in India, twice the amount it produced there last year, the report said. The manufacturer Pegatron assembled around 17% of those iPhones, while Foxconn produced around 67%, according to the report. Wistron built the rest.

In June 2023, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech executives met with India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, at the White House. Cook told CNBC after the meeting that India represents a "huge opportunity." Apple opened its first retail stores in the country last year.

China remains a crucial market for Apple, but sales have been off to a rocky start this year. A Counterpoint Research report from March found that iPhone sales in China dropped 24% in the first six weeks of 2024. The firm said Apple faces significant competition from other smartphone vendors like Huawei.

Apple declined to comment.

[Nextrush]

No Excrement the Economic Warfare with China is underway in full swing and it’s no wonder the economy is rocky.

[montag813]

The left and Democrats despise Modi and the Indian nationalists.

[moovova]

It’s only fair India get to produce the iPhone...since they already provide tech support.

[Reno89519]

So my next iPhone may be made by cheap Indian labor instead of cheap Chinese labor? Okay, at least that Indian labor is IN India. Can we send home the 10s of millions of Indians in the US to help set up and run those manufacturing lines?

[minnesota_bound]

iPhone type phones are a dime a dozen now.