Apple has begun manufacturing iPhone 13 in India, the company said on Monday, as it works to reduce reliance on China.
Apple’s iPhone 13 lineup features sleek designs made even more durable with the Ceramic Shield front cover, and includes the breakthrough A15 Bionic chip, an advanced 5G experience, cutting-edge camera systems for stunning photos and videos, and a huge leap in battery life. iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini also offer a bright Super Retina XDR display, while iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max include a vibrant Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion featuring an adaptive refresh rate from 10Hz up to 120Hz.
The phone is being produced at a local plant of Apple’s Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, situated in the town of Sriperumbudur in Southern Tamil Nadu state, according to a source.
Apple has been shifting some areas of iPhone production from China to other markets including India, the world’s second biggest smartphone market, and is also planning to assemble iPad tablets there.
India and countries such as Mexico and Vietnam are becoming increasingly important to contract manufacturers supplying American brands as they try to diversify production away from China.
MacDailyNews Take: Diversification, especially away from China, reduces risk and benefits Apple.
It’s smart for both Apple and Foxconn to diversify assembly outside of China. There’s no sense having all of your eggs in one basket. – MacDailyNews, April 2, 2019
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India, now there’s a protectionist country. Certainly the more Apple invests into the country and builds infrastructure the more they move to diversify, a good move that MDN echoes. They have some pretty hot shot programmers and engineers over there too.
…is one way to deplete your manufacturing base. I wonder if Apple and Tim have any comments?
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