The primary iPhone Professional fashions to be made in India might be coming as quickly as September or October this yr.
In keeping with Bloomberg, Apple plans to start out manufacturing iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max fashions in India “as close to the global debut as possible.” This might imply a couple of weeks after launch, which is anticipated in early September.
This most likely will not imply a lot for the shoppers. The brand new iPhones will likely be assembled by Foxconn, the identical firm that is been Apple’s key manufacturing associate for the iPhone for greater than a decade. Foxconn, which operates primarily in China, will construct the brand new iPhone Professional fashions in its manufacturing unit in India’s southernmost state, Tamil Nadu.
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A giant chunk of iPhone manufacturing already resides in India — in April, Bloomberg claimed that one in seven iPhones are constructed there — largely by China’s Foxconn and Taiwan’s Pegatron firms. However the firm reportedly solely had its “regular” iPhone fashions assembled in India; if this new report is correct, it might be the primary time the iPhone Professional fashions have been made within the nation.
The transfer is a vital one for Apple, although. The corporate plans to construct all the iPhones it sells in India regionally to keep away from import duties. This ought to be achieved by the top of 2024, Bloomberg claims.
