Apple doubles 'Made in India' iPhone shipments in Q1

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). 

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. 

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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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?

docno42 said:

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. 

If lockdowns are the wake-up call, then the actions of China’s very bestest of BFFs in Ukraine is the bucket of ice water.

Truly diversifying the supply chain away from China may be hard, and it may take time, but it can and must be done. Apple has done other things that are hard and take time — they can do this. But will they? Major shareholders should be raising this privately with Tim Cook. Heck, POTUS probably should, too.