On December 21, some media revealed that foxconn's factory in Chennai, India, has begun trial production of the iPhone 13 for major customer Apple, and is expected to achieve large-scale mass production in February 2022 for export overseas and sales in the mainland. The iPhone 13 produced in India can improve the local supply and demand relationship well and contribute to global supply.
It has been previously reported that Apple has ensured that the supply of its own semiconductor chips can meet the demand for a large number of shipments, which will help the company expand its production plans to India.
It is worth mentioning that Apple does not plan to produce iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max in India, it seems that the largest shipment is the iPhone 13, and the current high-end production capacity can still meet the needs of consumers, and there is no need to expand the scale of production for the time being. However, once the demand for the Pro series models increases, Apple may also find other factories to increase production capacity.
Executives at The Foxconn plant in India say 20 to 30 percent of the iPhone 13 produced in India will be used for export to other countries. In fact, Apple has previously put into production iPhone SE2, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 and other models at foxconn factory in Bangalore, India, Wistron factory, etc., they all have a common place, that is, the shipment volume is huge, and these locally produced models account for 70% of the total local iPhone sales.
Xiao Lei learned that Apple released the iPhone 13 series in India at the end of September this year, which is less than 3 months away from the trial production, which is the fastest production speed ever. According to this rhythm, next year's iPhone 14 series, Apple may be directly in India during the stocking period. According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, Apple was the fastest growing brand in the Indian market in the third quarter, up 212% year-on-year and accounting for nearly half of the local high-end mobile phone market.
Speaking of Made in India, many people's first reaction is to express concerns about the quality of the subsequent production of iPhones, after all, India's production level is still not a small gap compared with the mainland, if the iPhone quality control "overturning" is more serious, it is estimated that it will bring a lot of blows to consumers' purchase impulses. For the cost control thing, Apple should know much better than us, in case of product quality problems, you can directly take it and return it.