Apple said it was very happy to produce the iPhone 14 in India. Who doesn't love cheap labor?

As the leader of the mobile phone industry at this stage, Apple will have a very high sales volume every time it releases a new phone. In order to ensure the shipment, Apple has established production and processing sites in many countries, including China. The more famous one is Foxconn, the "sweatshop". Recently, Apple said it was very happy to produce the iPhone 14 in India, and said it would establish more factories in India in the future, It is hoped that part of the domestic production line can be transferred to India.

On September 26, Apple said that iPhone manufacturers were "very happy to produce iPhone 14 in India". It was reported that Apple planned to transfer a quarter of its iPhone production to India by 2025. JPMorgan analysts said last week that they believed that Apple would transfer about 5% of its iPhone 14 production to India by the end of 2022.

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Apple announced in an email on Monday local time that it had started producing the iPhone 14 in India, less than three weeks after the release of the iPhone 14.

Guo Minggui, an analyst at Tianfeng International, said on Twitter earlier this month that the mass production progress of iPhone 14 in India this year is still about six weeks behind China, and in the past, it was generally one quarter or more behind. Apple first started producing iPhones in India in 2017, the iPhone SE. In April this year, Apple announced that it had begun to produce the iPhone 13 smartphone in India. Previously, some iPhones were assembled by Foxconn in the local factory, while the other part was assembled by Wistron Capital.

Apple moved the production line to India mainly for the cost. After all, India has a large population, and the labor cost is much lower than that of China. Whether this measure is good or bad depends on the time to verify.