Wednesday 15 April 2015

Will the next iPhone be ‘Made in India’?

Will the next iPhone be ‘Made in India’?
With Foxconn’s plans to invest in three new facilities in India, it is now being speculated that Apple’s next iPhone could be made in India.
According to The Economic Times, Foxconn ‘is looking’ to invest into three new facilities here that will be based in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Two of these facilities are dedicated to manufacturing while the third is aimed at establishing a R&D centre.
Besides, Foxconn has reportedly hired a senior Nokia executive, Josh Foulger, who has experience in establishing the Nokia plant in Chennai. Apple is rumoured to be working on iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus phablet, along with affordable iPhone 6C as part of the 2015 refresh cycle.
The possibility of Apple to start manufacturing in India is also fuelled by the recent reports that highlight how Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urged Apple to open a research and development (R&D) facility in India when he met Apple’s Head Compliance EMEIA region John Reynolds in New Delhi.
With the government’s new ‘Make in India’ initiative, we’ve seen several companies now readying to start manufacturing here. If things go according to plan, this will be Foxconn’s second coming, as it had a subsidiary which made parts for the Nokia plant in Chennai. There were three Foxconn plants on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway which had closed down in February, laying off thousands of employees.
For now, let’s take this news with a pinch of salt.
Posted by : Gizmeon

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