Agreed. I have serious hygiene concerns surrounding goods manufactured in the subcontinent.
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iPhone 16 Pro Models to Be Assembled in India for the First Time
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There is no definitive date yet, but I assume the keynote will be Tuesday September 10th, with a notice to the press August 27th and a release date of Friday September 20th. Just my two cents.
September 10, 2024 was my prediction a year ago... but obviously things can still theoretically change. 🤣
I feel like the article should say “iPhone Pro models to be assembled in India for the first time starting with 16 Pro.”
but either way… nice!
but either way… nice!
I’m wondering the same. Does anyone with actual knowledge know if indias manufacturing standards are better than Chinas?
Now they will. Apple bringing the world closer together.
Probably a lot cheaper for the India market. I remember reading about their import taxes being high for some items. Manufacturing them in country removes that cost for a huge market and also diversifies manufacturing a bit.
How about making them in the USA and cutting the profits to greedy investors?
Good idea to spread the assembly process around. What about component manufacturing. How much of the iPhone's internals are made in China?
Great, let's make another country that's the enemy of the US rich.
I will keep returning the India versions until I get the China one ^^
Where not only is the labor more expensive, but you’re under the constant gun of the NLRB, with employees threatening to strike every so many years putting your business at risk? Then you add to that an overly litigious society with a lazy workforce. Why would you ever want to take on that headache?
UAW already kneecapped the auto industry and unions already decimated manufacturing.
Add to that we don’t actually have the skilled labor for it here in the first place.
We’ve made it so cumbersome to manufacture here that it’s significantly easier to literally build out infrastructure outside the country and ship the products in.
Yes -- we like to actually have some workers rights here ... as opposed to just installing "suicide nets"
Looks like some people don't realize that India already assembles the iPhone there. They will just start doing the Pro models there now. At least the posting shows how many people here are a little racist.
If we can't build in the US we should build in Mexico to make that a country with jobs and a place where its citizens want to live and stay. With plenty of jobs and income people wouldn't want or need to move to the US. Probably, cheaper to subsidize factories in Mexico that pay what illegal immigration is costing us.
Not Chine, not India.
Not Chine, not India.
Perhaps you are confusing Yemen or Iraq or Iran with India. I don't think India hates the US nor do we consider them an enemy of the state. Although classifying China as a enemy of the state is kind of stupid also since 99% of the **** we need to live as a 1st world country is made there.
Apple has been very slow and steady in this effort of mitigating single place making by slowly training the workforce to assemble lesser variants first for the past few years, slowly upgrading it to higher end models. If there are any issues, it would already been sorted out before venturing into Pro model assembly. Only issue could be the speed at which they are made in China may not happen immediately. The scaling could be a problem where labour laws, media attention etc…are far more vocal than in China, hence we should be realistic in our expectations.
china doesnt hate the US either but we considered them a threat purely for geopolitical reasons, right now india is not conforming with US on embargo on russian oil and does not toe the same line when it comes to ukraine.
It’s a cartel issue as well which goes with political stability. In China and India even though there is crime and corruption like many nations which still has the illusion of political stability. Business care to see that the facilities don’t get destroyed, employees harmed and products stolen. It all fits into the equation of will this cost more in other areas to produce or not.
So if one country does not like another and is persuading or pressuring its circle to adopt its beliefs isn’t that manipulation and bullying.
Look at it this way the popular guy or gal in high school does not like a foreign student that may rival them as an equal so the native guy or gal goes around asking their circle of friends to not communicate with the foreign student or just be mean towards them. Keeping politics aside mind you.
Meh, having cheap manufacturing seemed to benefit China and the world. How expensive would an iPhone Pro be without China, or an xbox, or Playstation? Would we have AI today without decades of cheap chips and components? India hopefully will keep the gravy train running in case China ever gets unaffordable or just not an option for whatever geopolitical reason.
People are under some belief that returning manufacturing to the USA will equal to similar levels of employment as other nations; wrong. Why? The USA facilities will use more robotics and only require a few skilled employees thus negating the belief that unemployment will be resolved. Plus forget about the cost of wages, benefits, population actually interested in working said line work assembly jobs to name a few and the pictures is not rosy. I have seen manufacturing that costs three times as much in the USA and quality is lacking compared to some good manufacturers in China. I have also seen simple mistakes on a shipped product that just boggles the mind like have two different colours or finishes in a single colour or finish product. Thinking USA manufacturing is better is hubris.
Well that is because of Brazil, China, India and Russia forming their own trade group (BRIC) and routes, aka Silk Road 2.0 etc etc. Kind of stupid to ship oil to India when Russia has it right there. Same with Germany basically getting screwed over about Russian oil also. Ukraine all about oil; same with Israel and Palestine conflict; all about oil and the majority of the US believing it all belongs to us and our allies. The Petro dollar is in serious threat right now and the US is going to be in serious trouble if it goes away; and eventually I think it is going to go away.
Pretty much all of the modern world's conflicts can be tied back to oil.