According to The Information, Apple intends to boost iPhone production in India by approximately 10% in 2025, as reported by a source within the company’s supply chain. Currently, Apple assembles between 30 and 40 million iPhones each year in India. This planned expansion aligns with Apple’s broader strategy to diversify its manufacturing base and decrease dependence on China, which still handles roughly 80% of global iPhone production. The move underscores Apple’s belated efforts to diversify its supply chain resilience amid geopolitical and economic shifts.
Apple has faced recent hurdles in its shift to India. According to the report, Chinese authorities earlier this year blocked the export of key manufacturing equipment to India, prompting one of Apple’s Chinese suppliers to reroute the machinery via a front company in Southeast Asia.
Despite such challenges, Apple continues to expand operations in India, working with partners like Foxconn and Tata Group.
The company’s long-term goal is reportedly to move about half of its iPhone production out of China.
MacDailyNews Take: The less dependence Apple has on China, the better.
• The time to accelerate plans to move production out of China was November 9th 2016, but, hey, six years late is better than never! – MacDailyNews, December 4, 2022
• Diversify, diversify, diversify – especially away from CCP-controlled China. – MacDailyNews, October 19, 2022
• Apple cannot divest their dependence on China quickly enough (because they started years too late). – MacDailyNews. August 17, 2022
Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who opened relations with China in the early 1970’s, just before his death in 1994 remarked on China: We may have created a Frankenstein.
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