All along, the iPhones in our hands are assembled in China, such as Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and other foundries, the main assembly bases are in China, and the back of Apple products is basically written "Assembled in China" (China assembly).
However, in recent years, foundries have begun to gradually move to Southeast Asia, and Vietnam and India are their targets.
For example, Apple's AirPods 3 has two production areas in China and Vietnam, and Vietnam accounts for about 30% of the production. It's not that I'm biased, the Vietnamese AirPods 3 is really rough...
After receiving the AirPods 3, many users found problems such as raw edges, residual glue, current sound, lid shaking, etc., and looked at the origin: it was indeed made in Vietnam. These are rare in China.
Another example is the iPhone, in fact, long ago, Apple foundry Wistron built a factory in India, producing old models such as iPhone 7, 8, AND SE, mainly sold to India. Self-produced and self-sold, can reduce the local price, which is a good thing.
But recently, Apple confirmed that it will officially produce the latest iPhone 13 model in India to continue to promote the diversification of its product supply chain outside of China.
This was about three months later than the planned production date. The reason for the delay is that Apple found that the conditions in the staff dormitories of the Indian factories were too poor: there was no flush toilet, no running water, bugs crawling around on food, and even more than 250 employees were sick...
Now, the problem is "solved", so the iPhone 13 officially started production in India. This time, unlike the previous "self-produced and self-sold", the Indian-made iPhone 13 is not only available to the Indian domestic market, but also to other markets for the first time, such as the United States.
According to Counterpoint Research's estimates, India will account for about 3.1% of Apple's total global manufacturing in 2021, and this proportion is expected to reach 5% to 7% in 2022, and the Indian government will also attract Apple to produce iPads in India.
In the future, students who like to buy the American version of the iPhone will have the opportunity to buy the Indian-made iPhone 13.
In fact, the shift of foundries to Southeast Asia is mainly to pursue lower labor costs. Now the domestic young people have higher requirements for the factory environment and work, and fewer and fewer people want to enter the factory. In fact, this is also a good thing from another point of view, indicating that we are no longer a low-end manufacturing industry oriented by cheap labor, and it is time to transform and upgrade.
Businessmen are profit-seeking, they can't "put their eggs in the same basket", and they can deploy multiple countries and regions at the same time, and when they encounter a specific crisis, at least they will not stop completely at the same time.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a previous interview with the media: "There will always be unpredictable things, we have experienced earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, floods, tsunamis and SARS. "Therefore, Apple's globalization and diversification of the supply chain is precisely the right way for enterprises to ensure stability and security."
On the other hand, if we want to remain competitive in the global manufacturing industry, we should optimize the structure of the industrial chain and transform the simple labor + manufacturing into value-added + manufacturing, so that we can produce more and more expensive products in the manufacturing chain, and constantly improve quality and efficiency, so as to win development.
"13 incense" produced in India
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