Wrong. The whole point of manufacturing in India is to keep the prices same and increase their margins.
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Apple to Bolster Presence in India Through Tax Concessions and New Factories
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Wrong. The whole point of manufacturing in India is to keep the prices same and increase their margins.
Good idea, the sooner China is dumped the better.
Following reports this month that Apple has been in talks to manufacture its products locally in India, as well as set up a distribution center in the country, an article by Bloomberg today suggests that the Cupertino company is now asking India to offer up tax concessions on iPhones created within its borders.
According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is asking for lower import taxes and manufacturing duties, which could lead to lower-cost iPhones -- a solution that Apple CEO Tim Cook has admitted is needed in India.
In a separate report by The Times of India, industry sources claim that Apple is looking to build an iPhone manufacturing plant in Bangalore, India and begin production as soon as April. Specifically, Apple supplier Wistron is said to be the partner for the Bangalore facility, and the plant is poised to be a major contributor to the Indian iPhone supply chain by the end of 2017.
Earlier in the year, Apple announced plans to build an iOS App Design and Development Accelerator in Bangalore in order to support engineering talent and boost growth in India's iOS developer community. Around the same time that the Accelerator was announced, the company revealed plans for a new development center in Hyderabad, India focused on Apple Maps development.
The concessions and new Bangalore-based facility are the newest steps in Apple's attempt to bolster its presence in India. This year, Apple struggled with the government's rules on foreign direct investments, but a ruling over the summer finally cleared the way for Apple to begin expanding its retail presence in the country. Despite India's own growth as the third-largest smartphone market in the world, Apple sold 35 percent fewer iPhones in India throughout 2016 than it did in 2015.
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Very irrelevant comparison, since India has almost exactly 20 times the population of the UK.
However who's fault is that? Sure you can blame Mr. Cook however if said he was going build iPhones somewhere that was going to cost Apple more Money or make them raise the price do you think he would still be the CEO?
Some of the blame goes to the shareholders as well.
At the surface, India's seems to have a formidable middle class of 24 million people but the threshold for the Indian middle class is only $13,662 which would be considered poverty in a Western country.
https://thewire.in/14380/not-264-million-middle-class-is-24-million-report/
The number of wealthy people able to afford Apple products and live a Western consumption lifestyle is very small in India... so overall, India is a poor country.
To make matters worse, Income inequity is a growing problem in India:
"As of Nov 2016, India is the second-most unequal country in the world .[1] The richest 1% of Indians own 58.4% of wealth. The richest 10 % of the Indians own 80.7 % of the wealth. This trend is going in the upward direction every year, which means the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer [2]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_India
India has some serious problems to solve ...
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Should that happen... be ready to pay twice as much as what you are paying now because shareholders (among those I am one of them) want profit...
Apple is a company not a non-profit business and the goal is revenue. Where the manufacturing happens is irrelevant as long as the profit increases. If doing it in the US increases those chances then the management of Apple will put it there, otherwise... they will just do it overseas as most other enterprises...
Note: America is a extremely vast continent, I guess you refer to the United States of America, otherwise... Brazil or Chile or even Cuba can be part of the America you are talking about.
A couple of F16's making a couple of low altitude passes over their capital make excellent trade negotiators!
I know you like your profits.. but if you're worried about the short term loss of moving manufacturing jobs to the US you should re-evaluate your investment strategy. It's about principle to us Americans. Our jobs shouldn't be offshored and companies shouldn't be able to bring their products in for free. Renegotiated trade deals will cure the problem and make those MNCs a bit more NCs.
Note: When an American on an American website says America, they mean the United States. So if you had to guess I'm sorry lol
Edit: Other countries in the Americas aren't really relavant to Americans from the United States.. So the term America is pretty synonymous to the United States.
The person you quoted is probably from Central or South America.
The term American for most of the world, including Canada and Mexico, refers to the USA. But, this might offend some people from places south of Mexico. They may point out that they are apart of the Americas too. Which they are.
You are right though, and saying American in modern English is most likely a reference to the USA.
My job involves communicating with people around the world, and the occasional travel. One of the trainings involved talks about this very thing.
As to your point, I would like to see more assembly to be done domestically, even if it was automation. It would bring good jobs to the US. I do question if it would ever happen, unless it was automated, do to the relatively high cost of labor in the US.
So do you want to shutdown Apple's business across the world? Lol!!! Do you think companies like Apple will dare to loose markets like China and India which have 33% of the world's population?
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Well Apple will have to partner with Old Spice if it plans going that way..lol.
stay in China as things have been smooth since first iPhone or bring back production to America.
Unless you personally use the iPhone manufactured in India you never know. Your comments are baseless at this point. Producing in America will cost 5x more for labour so it will cost at least 2.5x more than the current price provided Apple receives tax cuts and other incentives. I don't think apple will find many customers to buy iPhone starting at $1500.
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