But isn’t India supporting Russia? Enough said, I will not be supporting them.
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iPhone Helps India Overtake China as the Leading Manufacturer for U.S. Smartphones
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I think India is in a far better position to become chinas replacement for manufacturing. China has been getting away with IP theft for too long for one thing and i think thats pushing more companies to get away from them. Apple would be smart to do so.
Oh dear, China's CCP will not like that. They will find a way to retaliate.
Jobs' vision was great, but he also had that vision during a massive "heyday" in technology as a whole (that he likely helped start, as well). If you think Jobs would still be innovating the way he was 15-20 years ago, I believe you would be incorrect.
So, a bit like China? China makes a lot of cheap low quality products, still do and previously were not known for quality until the last few decades.
India is going through a boom that China went through 30 years ago.
Not sure if you are just being disingenuous but it's absurd to claim or insinuate India has not, does not, or cannot produce items of quality. A lot of quality products come out of India.
So TSMC has their primary plant in Taiwan, an island basically surrounded by the Chinese navy now. TSMC's only option is to blow up the plant and all the machinery when Chine gets serious and invades.
The facility TSMC is building in Phoenix is many years away from the chip capacity Apple needs let alone being the current generation of processors. Intel has several fabs in the Phoenix area and others around the USA.
So the reality is Apple could be in the position of NO new TSMC chips availability and thus nothing to sell. Screen cleaning cloths and Apple pencils will not carry the day. I think even the "cables/wires" are probably all made in China.
We figure all of the M4 processor generation based gear we have could be operational for maybe six years in the worst case scenario. After that time, I will probably be too old to even care about phones and computers (age 80 now).
The facility TSMC is building in Phoenix is many years away from the chip capacity Apple needs let alone being the current generation of processors. Intel has several fabs in the Phoenix area and others around the USA.
So the reality is Apple could be in the position of NO new TSMC chips availability and thus nothing to sell. Screen cleaning cloths and Apple pencils will not carry the day. I think even the "cables/wires" are probably all made in China.
We figure all of the M4 processor generation based gear we have could be operational for maybe six years in the worst case scenario. After that time, I will probably be too old to even care about phones and computers (age 80 now).
Of course they do. Apple's entire supply chain and assembly have been building in parallel down in India along side China for the past decade.
Both countries assemble products exactly how they are contracted. If the contract is best of breed so be it. If it is to last just after warranties end so be it.
Remember when people used to say that about Japanese cars? Eventually you had Lee Iacoca coming back to rescue Chrysler from American hubris. Nothing new indeed. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if BRICS becomes a serious thing within 20 years at this point and supplants the dollar as a reserve currency for the same reasons.
I’ve been wedded to iOS since iPhone 3 and I never thought I’ll switch to Android, but I’ve decided that 15 Pro will be my last iPhone.
Great to see increased manufacturing in India. Would be nice if the price of Pro models in the domestic market reduce as they are now manufactured within the country.
There's an actual NYT bestselling book about the China manufacturing phenomenon, which was created largely by Apple's know-how.
20 years ago China was already surpassing every other country in cheap goods. Now they're the premier maker of *all* goods. It's good to see India beefing up its manufacturing base, even if it was borne out of mostly global economic circumstances and politics.
20 years ago China was already surpassing every other country in cheap goods. Now they're the premier maker of *all* goods. It's good to see India beefing up its manufacturing base, even if it was borne out of mostly global economic circumstances and politics.
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well the shift to india is expected; there's no news there.
The real news is apple dropping 7% market share yoy from 56 > 49%, and samsung increasing theirs from 23 > 31%.
That means apple's lead on samsung halved from 33 points to 18 percentage points. Wtf.
The real news is apple dropping 7% market share yoy from 56 > 49%, and samsung increasing theirs from 23 > 31%.
That means apple's lead on samsung halved from 33 points to 18 percentage points. Wtf.
Yeah, like many others that said about Japanese cars. That’s a good point well taken.
They are not what? Not going through a boom? India is growing steadily faster than China and is expected to continue doing so by a significant margin for the foreseeable future.
You ignored most of my comment and this doesn't detract from what I said the way you think it does.
Everyone is quoting or talking about that one trial batch run which had few damaged cases. Things have progressed far beyond that now. India is best friends with Russia so will now Americans boycott/cancel iPhones and Androids and stop using mobiles all together? 🤡
In world politics, there are no permanent friends or enemies. Only strategic interests.
Atleast India doesn’t wish for destruction of US and wants to be a reliable business partner unlike certain other countries.
Don’t forget China holds near global monopoly of rare earth refining capabilities, and China is more than willing to cut exports of the refined products to pressure the world. Besides, China pumps millions of university graduates every year, most of which today can’t even find a job. Being able to work in an assembly line is going to be a dream for many, however long it will last. I don’t know what Indian people can offer at this point, aside from having more young people proportionally than China does. Then, China and India has never been in their best terms either. I wonder how Apple can even acquire those raw materials needed to manufacture iPhone in such scale in India.
What ever they do they it will be something that will impact India's ability to manufacture iphones forcing Apple to go back to China.