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Apple’s India production faces quality issues, about 50% of iPhone housings produced rejected
Mehul Das •Tata’s Apple factory at Hosur, which make cases or housings for iPhones, had 50 per cent of its produced cases fail Apple’s quality control check. The Apple factory is now working on a strategy to improve proficiency, but there is still a long way to go.
Apple’s Chinese woes: Cook blames pandemic controls, supply chain disruptions for revenue drop
Mehul Das •Tim Cook believes that Apple had one of its worst quarters in the last four years in 2022, because of China's pandemic policies, which in turn caused severe supply chain disruptions. Cook also revealed that India set a "quarterly revenue record” and growth in double digits.
Major step up for Apple’s Make in India plan as Indian supplier starts making AirPod parts for export
Fp Staff •Apple will start making AirPods in India soon, and also start exporting components that Indian suppliers make. This is a major boost to Apple’s Make In India plan as Apple was facing a challenge to get vital components manufactured outside China.
Explained: Apple Starts Manufacturing iPhone 13 In India, But No Respite For Indian Consumers
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Samsung stops phone production in China due to rising labour costs, to expand in India
•Samsung's share of the Chinese market shrank to 1 percent in the first quarter from around 15 percent in mid-2013
About 94 percent smartphones sold in India are manufactured locally: Report
Tech2 News Staff •India's mobile handset market recorded nine percent sequential growth during the last quarter.
Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu says govt is willing to support Apple set up a manufacturing plant in India, is awaiting a formal proposal
•"Let us get a good proposal from them...We will be very happy to receive Apple, one of the top brands in the world." Prabhu told PTI
India considering exemptions sought by Apple to setup a unit to assemble
•Apple has asked federal government officials for a range of tax and policy changes to help build out its iPhone assembly work in India.
Apple wants to expand facility of contract manufacturer in India: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Tech2 News Staff •The iPhone maker seeks a bigger share in one of the world's biggest smartphone markets.
Apple's tax exemption demand for setting up manufacturing unit in India rejected by Finance Ministry
•The Finance Ministry has rejected iPhone maker Apple's demand for tax exemptions for setting up a manufacturing unit in India saying that the decision will have to be taken up by the GST Council.