Apple doubles 'Made in India' iPhone shipments in Q1

Almost one million iPhones made in India for sale in that country, were produced in the first quarter of 2022, making a 50% rise in local manufacturing.

Even before Foxconn's Sriperumbudur plant in India began producing the iPhone 13 in April, 2022, existing local production was already ramping up from previous years.

According to Indian news agency IANS, via Business Insider, the 50% growth is in those iPhones produced under the "Make in India" incentives. While Apple's suppliers can make iPhones for distribution anywhere, there are local tax advantages to both producing and selling the models in India.

Market research conducted by CyberMedia Research (CMR) claims that overall sales of iPhones in India, whether made in the country or not, also rose by some 22%.

Initially, Apple limited its "Made in India" production to older iPhone models. Now, however, it is producing the iPhone 13 there. CMR says that sales of the newest iPhone are almost equally as responsible for the overall growth as the iPhone 12 continues to be.

7 Comments

blastdoor 3568 comments · 15 Years

About 2 years ago

Right now Apple is as dependent on Chinese factories as Germany is on Russian gas. Apple desperately needs to diversify production away from China. India is doing Apple a huge favor here.

Apple needs to learn how to assemble iPhones in the Americas, too (doesn't have to be the US).

docno42 3761 comments · 16 Years

Apple’s continual propping up of the communists in China will be a dark stain on Tim Cook’s legacy. Hopefully they will continue to diversify away from them. The lockdowns going on in China should be a further wake up call to the foolishness of getting in bed with and relying so totally on unreliable totalitarian dictators.

spock1234 163 comments · 11 Years

Diversifying your supply chain. Sourcing your products from multiple locations. Good job Apple!

waveparticle 1497 comments · 3 Years

To the China haters posting above, please understand it is Foxconn a Taiwanese company making iPhones for Apple in India. It is not Apple. Foxconn is a contractor a part of the global supply chain.
My question is if a Taiwanese company can do this why Indian with a population over 1,3 billion cannot have an Indian company producing iPhone for Apple? There are numerous Indians holding CEO position in top US companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the list goes on and on. Supposedly Indians are highly smart and capable than Chinese. Right ?

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retrogusto 1138 comments · 16 Years

waveparticle said:

To the China haters posting above, please understand it is Foxconn a Taiwanese company making iPhones for Apple in India. It is not Apple. Foxconn is a contractor a part of the global supply chain.
My question is if a Taiwanese company can do this why Indian with a population over 1,3 billion cannot have an Indian company producing iPhone for Apple? There are numerous Indians holding CEO position in top US companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the list goes on and on. Supposedly Indians are highly smart and capable than Chinese. Right ?

It’s not just a question of having smart people and access to relatively inexpensive labor. There is a lot of specific manufacturing expertise, sophisticated logistics and myriad supplier and transportation relationships required to produce millions of complex, high quality devices quickly. And China is the only country with the ability to produce a lot of the smaller parts at scale in a timely manner, which isn’t going to change anytime soon, so you’d need to have deep roots in China regardless. Otherwise, if an Indian company could do it, why not, say, an American company operating a factory just about anywhere with cheap labor?