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2023-03-06 India-Pakistan
Apple to manufacture iPhones at new plant in India
[KhaamaPress] According to officials, Apple will produce iPhones at a new plant in India as the American tech giant aims to increase production there and diversify away from China.

The corporation in a new 300-acre plant in Karnataka state, India, would be established, according to announcements made by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

They added that the investment was estimated at $700 million on a new plant and would employ 100,000 people.

According to local media, following a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu made the news while visiting that city on Friday.

Since 2019, Foxconn, the leading iPhone manufacturer in the world, has produced Apple smartphones in India at its factory in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. In addition, Apple announced last September it would manufacture its latest iPhone 14 in India, just weeks after launching the flagship model.

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
 according to Bloomberg, India accounts for less than five per cent of Apple’s global production, lagging behind the United States, China, Japan, and other countries.

The leading flagship mobile’s global supply chain is based in China, while the ongoing diplomatic tensions with the United States and strict Covid-19 policies last year have undermined production.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
 Part of Prime Minister Modi’s "Made in India" initiative encourages international companies to produce goods and productions in the South Asian country.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-06 01:26|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 How India's caste system works, and why it's generating US controversy
Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-06 04:13||   2023-03-06 04:13|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ India has Palestine, Ohio 'fly-over' people as well.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-06 06:17||   2023-03-06 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Did some quick assembly line worker wage checking, using salaryexplorer*com that works out to :

In Communist China, 7690 CNY or $1113.27 (USD) a month.

vs.

India, 8,550 INR, or about $104.66.

So Apple will reduce the labor cost of producing an iPhone by 90.59%.
Not have to give Communist China 51% control, like is done frequently in doing business in China. Plus, it will not have to deal with the growing Communist China vs USA conflict issues.

Sounds like Apple is making a logical Business move on the surface.
But, why do I feel there is something that lays beneath all of this?



Posted by NN2N1 2023-03-06 07:09||   2023-03-06 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ The ComChis want corporate control. The Indians just want bribes.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-06 09:09||   2023-03-06 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 China is saturated with phones.
India, perhaps not as much.
With Russia as a trading partner that's a big market.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-06 09:19||   2023-03-06 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 tim cook needs to find out the hard way that you cannot eat money
Posted by 746 2023-03-06 09:21||   2023-03-06 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Hedging of bets.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-06 12:23||   2023-03-06 12:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Tim Cook and the Apple board blew it. The revealed themselves to the whole world. They don't care if they enable a hostile, totalitarian communist dictatorship so I don't care about them. They can eat their iPhones. I'll never buy one.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-06 13:18||   2023-03-06 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Hello! My name is Debbie. How may I be helping you today?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-06 13:52||   2023-03-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Tom from Hyderabad was most helpful to me today getting my HP pc to finally find and communicate with my HP scanner. It wasn’t easy… what is the matter with HP?
Posted by Glenmore  2023-03-06 15:39||   2023-03-06 15:39|| Front Page Top

#11 what is the matter with HP?

Same thing that's wrong with Apple. Check on the back of that equipment and you'll see it was made in China. Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard left the building a long, long time ago the same as Mr. Jobs left Apple. Today those companies are run by empty suits who care more about profits than anything else, including national security. Well, I shouldn't forget they care about being woke too but that has a lot to do with Blackrock. And, since they are empty suits, none of them has ever had a single original innovative thought so they maintain profits by using cheap labor and compromising product quality.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-06 17:22||   2023-03-06 17:22|| Front Page Top

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