Apple is planning to start manufacturing iPhone 12 in India for both the Indian market and for export too. The iPhone 12 will be a new design with a new camera and battery.
According to a report from Business Standard, the iPhone 12 will be manufactured at Foxconn’s plant in Tamil Nadu. The plant already manufactures the iPhone 11 and iPhone XR. ..
Analyst suggests that Apple is planning to shift about 7-10% of its production capacity from China in order to take advantage of the Indian Government’s PLI(Production-Linked Incentive) scheme. With the Indian Government’s PLI(Production-Linked Incentive) scheme, Apple has partnered with Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron for production in India. ..
The production of the iPhone SE at Wistron’s facility near Bengaluru was halted after violence by staff due to some issues with payment. Analyst told Business Standard that the plant was also going to manufacture iPhone 12 mini but it is yet to be decided.
The report added that the Pegatron’s manufacturing unit is likely to be functional in the middle of 2021.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is very positive and excited about the company’s future in the Indian market, according to Indian Express. ..
This is the case in some of the emerging markets where we’re proud of how we’ve done. If you take India for example, we doubled our business last quarter compared to a year ago but our absolute level of business there is still quite low relative to the size of the opportunity.
Apple is rumored to be working on a headset with augmented reality and virtual reality capabilities in 2022, followed by AR glasses in 2025. KuoOnePlus, a Chinese phone maker, has partnered with Hasselblad for the OnePlus 9 series, which is said to launch in late 2022 or early 2019. This would mean that Apple’s headset would likely come out before Google’s Daydream View and Samsung’s Gear VR.
