Apple no longer accepting credit or debit card payments in India
Customers in India will need to fund their Apple ID balance if they wish to purchase apps, media, or subscriptions through Apple.
Customers in India will need to fund their Apple ID balance if they wish to purchase apps, media, or subscriptions through Apple.
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.
Foxconn's Sriperumbudur plant in India is now making the iPhone 13, further diversifying Apple's supply chain and avoiding dependence on China.
Apple's iPhone 13 is expected to start production in India in April, at a Foxconn facility that endured protests over food poisoning and poor living conditions.
Apple iPhone assembly partner Foxconn is working with Vedanta to produce semiconductors, a move that could help ease the global chip shortage by boosting production in India.
Apple's iPhone saw its strongest quarter to date in India with the company shipping an estimated 2.3 million units in Q4 2021, new smartphone sales estimates suggest.
Apple is allegedly testing out the rumored third-generation iPhone SE in India, and may also be shaking down a pair of iPads for launch in early 2022.
Manufacturing has resumed at Foxconn's Sriperumbudur, southern India iPhone plant, with a fraction of the staff working that it had when it shut down.
Foxconn says it has implemented "corrective actions" following worker protests over living conditions, and Apple's placing the Sriperumbudur iPhone plant on probation.
After a complaint by a consumer group in September, The India Competition Commission has formally ordered a probe looking into Apple's App Store payment system, commissions, and more.
As Apple puts Foxconn's southern India iPhone plant on "probation," workers have revealed more details of unsanitary conditions, and meals that had worms crawling through them.
Following the enforced closure of a Foxconn iPhone plant in India over poor working conditions, Apple has told the company it is "on probation."
A cluster of food poisoning incidents and a protest shut down an Apple iPhone factory in India, and the reopening has been postponed yet again because of poor worker living conditions.
Apple is trialling an expansion to the range of iPhones it manufactures in India, with the company starting a program of producing the iPhone 13 at Foxconn's Chennai plant.
Food poisoning of employees at an iPhone manufacturing facility in India prompted protests at the Foxconn factory, resulting in the detention of nearly 70 women and 22 men.
Apple has filed to prevent an antitrust investigation in India, by telling the regulator it isn't big enough in the country to abuse its market power, at the same time as saying that the complaint was instigated by critics of App Store policies.
Apple has told an Indian technology summit that the company supports around a million jobs through its local app economy.
Apple has given its customers in India another chance to add funds to their Apple ID and to receive a 20% bonus, at a time when Apple and developers brace for a regulatory change affecting App Store subscriptions.
In celebration of the upcoming Diwali festival, Apple is offering customers in India a free pair of AirPods with the purchase of an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 mini.
Google acted in an anticompetitive way in India, the country's antitrust regulator determined, with the search giant allegedly using its "huge financial muscle" to force its apps to be preinstalled onto Android devices to enable access to the Google Play store.
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