Apple Looking to Assemble iPhone 16 Pro Models in India
Apple has already begun to diversify its iPhone manufacturing course of by establishing manufacturing services in areas exterior China. The iPhone maker’s concentrate on India-based manufacturing began with the first-generation iPhone SE in 2017. Since then, the manufacturing of subsequent fashions, such because the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14, additionally began in India.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple’s manufacturing of the purported iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max may characterize an essential milestone for India’s manufacturing sector in addition to the Cupertino firm. It will probably be the primary time that Apple branches out its manufacturing of the Pro iPhone fashions – that are at the moment produced in China with Taiwanese companions corresponding to Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron.
Notably, whereas the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are assembled in India, the Pro fashions are nonetheless unique to China.
While Apple was beforehand reported to make these domestically assembled iPhone 16 Pro fashions stocked in shops on the primary day of sale, that is probably not the case. The report means that Foxconn would be the main assembler of the purported smartphones, and its staff have began receiving coaching, with the purpose of kicking off the meeting at Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur plant “inside weeks” of the worldwide launch.
Apple’s different manufacturing companions in India, corresponding to Pegatron and Tata-owned Wistron, are additionally alleged to start the manufacturing of iPhone 16 Pro fashions afterward.
