If you want to go, you can't stay, and you don't have to stay if you want to. As we all know, more than 90% of the world's iPhones and iPads are assembled and produced in China, of which Foxconn, a subsidiary of Taiwan Hon Hai Precision, is the world's largest foundry, and there is no one.
As early as 2020, some foreign media broke the news that Apple in the United States intended to put the future manufacturing center in India.
No, today there are media reports, Apple has officially confirmed that Apple has begun to produce its best-selling iPhone 13 smartphone in India. Apple currently produces some of the most advanced iPhone models in India, including the iPhone 11, iPhone 12 and now the iPhone 13, assembled by Foxconn at its local factory, and the iPhone SE and iPhone 12 at Wistron Capital' factory.
So today's question is, why is Apple so optimistic about India? Let's take a quick look at it!
How many people did not look favorably on India at the beginning, saying that Indians were lazy, saying that india was difficult to acquire land and that the federal system was not good. Apple punched everyone in the face with practical actions.
Cook is a businessman, and since he is a businessman, he must also abide by the phrase "no profit is too early". In Chun Gongzi's view, the reason why Cook increased his investment in India is nothing more than the following reasons to refer to:
First of all, India is a populous country, which also means that the market potential is huge, India in recent years in order to promote the so-called Made in India, restrict the import of finished mobile phones, relax the import of parts and components. Macro policies still have a certain role. India does have a seemingly attractive market.
In the past, a big advantage of China's attraction of foreign investment was that labor costs were cheap, but now it is no longer the case before, can some people's concepts keep up with the speed of China's development?
Now, compared with India and Vietnam, China should pay more attention to the direct transfer of production capacity to consumers such as developed countries due to the improvement of industrial automation. When a highly automated production line no longer needs many workers, what is the use of you having a demographic dividend.
China's manufacturing costs are rising, not as fragrant as before. Cook is known for its cost reduction, and the labor cost of production in India will be much lower.
Stable operating environment, a complete industrial chain is very important. Apple knows this, and Foxconn knows it. Apple's market value and shipments hit a new high this year, and it is the mainland that can stably ship so many goods!
But Apple does understand the potential threat of over-reliance on China's supply chain. So since 2 years ago, Cook has pulled some supply chain companies behind Apple and began to lay out in India.
Seeing this, some netizens may think that Apple has begun to vigorously deploy in India, will this have an impact on China's manufacturing industry?
In Chun Gongzi's view, in the short term, Apple's increased layout of India will indeed affect some Chinese companies, but in the long run, it will have no impact. Because our current manufacturing industry is also fully upgraded, to put it bluntly, in the future, we will slowly abandon the low-end manufacturing industry and comprehensively promote the high-end manufacturing industry.