India in recent months is giving the Cupertino-based company a lot of headaches. Although it is true that thanks to several agreements with the government, it has obtained the necessary permission to open stores in the country without the requirement of having to sell products made in India, During the first three years, Apple is aware that sooner or later it has to get down to work and that its main manufacturer, Foxconn, begins to take the first steps to create the necessary facilities in the country and that in this way they can assemble the devices there.
Regardless of the investment that the Foxconn company has to make, it is a step that will bring great benefits because labor in India is currently much cheaper than in China, which has risen a lot in recent years, which has forced the manufacturer to have to replace half of its workforce with robots at Foxconn headquarters.
As we can read in The Economic Times, Apple is rushing to get Foxconn to start taking the first steps to take part of its production to India. According to this post, iPhone could be the first device to be made at future Foxconn facilities in the country, in this way Apple would have no problem in selling those devices in the country when the deadline given by the Indian government expires.
Despite the latest iPhone sales numbers in the country, they do not stop Apple She is convinced that India is the next emerging market where she wants to expand further, especially now that China is starting to stop being the country that was growing by leaps and bounds.
