Apple wants almost every iPhone 18 to be sold in the USA.

9 Facebook reddit Bluesky Apple is reported to significantly accelerate production efforts in India, and may try to import almost every iPhone 18, sold from the country, by the end of 2026. Opinions differ depending on how many devices imported in the United States come from the country, but if the report on Friday in the morning, for the first time made by The Financial Times, more precisely, this number will fly up over the next 20 months.Although a high goal, we are skeptical of the report. At the moment, India produces about 40 million iPhone per year both for local requirements for distribution and for export and MDash; A little less than the fifth of the global production of Apple iPhone.

At the end of 2023, Apple wanted to double the iPhone production in India up to 25% of the global fraction by the end of 2024, which it did not reach. It grew to 15% global demand.

The previous report says that Apple wants to increase the global share of the meeting by another 10% in 2025. It will also not receive quite high the result to comply with the forecast of the Friday report.

and, even if this 10% growth is accurate, plus Apple in some way can send all India production in the United States, this still means expanding about 18 million iPhone collected a year in the country. This would be the largest annual extension to date, approximately twice as for what has been achieved so far a year.

More realistic, including the iPhone, which Apple requires for production and sale in India for production in the country, Apple should increase production in India by about 25 million iPhone per year, which is even more frightening.

, and this suggests that the Chinese government will cooperate, plus Chinese companies Foxconn and LuxShare will be allowed. In one famous Stonewall, Apple employees and suppliers are faced with labor visas in India to work to improve supply chains.

In addition, the Chinese authorities talked with Apple partners in the supply chain and other manufacturers to try to encourage them to transfer the production of submasors outside the country. At that time, China referred to the risk of employment.

, while the iPhone assembly lines work in China in two 12-hour shifts, Indian labor laws force partners on the Apple supply chain to have three eight-hour shifts. This demanded to hire more workers in India than in China. Although Apple successfully lobbied the governments to allow 12-hour shifts, they were not implemented due to labor unrest.

there were also problems that were received by the Saturday lines working in India. The search for key components on a fairly high Apple quality to be approved by Apple turned out to be unpleasant.

The Chinese authorities also detained and blocked the shipment of equipment for the production of iPhone in India, often without any official explanation. And when in the country, the use of hardware was a problem, since some system systems were in Chinese, and therefore it was more difficult to use work at the local level.

The origin of the story of Friday is unclear. Financial Times is little promising on this problem and quotes unnamed sources familiar with this issue.

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