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Apple now assembles a quarter of iPhones in India, signaling major supply chain shift (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 days ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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In context: Apple's shift to India is no longer an experiment in supply-chain diversification – it has become a fundamental part of how the company builds iPhones. In 2025, Apple assembled roughly 55 million iPhones in India, accounting for about a quarter of its global output, according to people familiar with the data. The production surge marks a 53% increase from the prior year and underscores Apple's effort to rebalance one of the tech industry's most sophisticated electronics manufacturing systems.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This has interesting ramifications. iPhone manufacturing is quite fiddly and needs skills and a high level of quality control. Several years ago, India did not have this capability.

Meanwhile China’s middle class is growing and doesn’t want do manufacturing.

[–] fourish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think that India had the skill and QC if you wanted to pay for it, but if china was working fine there was little incentive to change something that worked. Political tensions made the change necessary moreso than economic or skill reasons.

The whole middle class issue in China is going to become a big problem for the Chinese government. They’ve developed their entire economy on being the low cost maker of everything and if that goes away they’ll have an economic collapse.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

So who assembles the other 3 quarters in India? wheeze laugh