Apple is Reportedly Making More of Its New iPhones in India Instead of China (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/2351234/apple-is-reportedly-making-more-of-its-new-iphones-in-india-instead-of-china
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/761582/apple-iphone-17-pro-max-air-india-china
> Apple is manufacturing more of its iPhone 17 phones for the US [1]in India instead of in China , and for the first time, the full lineup of new models will ship from India at launch, according to Bloomberg. The company is also working on a successor to the iPhone 16E that it plans to make in India, Bloomberg says.
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> Apple has increasingly been moving iPhone production to India to reduce its dependence on manufacturing in China. The company already expects to pay $1.1 billion in tariffs for the current quarter, but Bloomberg reports that currently, Apple's exports of iPhones to the US from India are exempted from tariffs. That's despite the Trump administration's 50 percent tariff on many imports from India, and while analyst Patrick Moorhead says the move "does dodge some tariffs," he noted that iPhone subassemblies are still mostly produced in China then shipped to India for final assembly.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/761582/apple-iphone-17-pro-max-air-india-china
That new phone smell (Score:1)
Is going to be chicken vindaloo?
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No, but you might need a bit of time to get used to Siri’s accent.
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I don't disagree.
But your post is still obnoxious.
Subassemblies (Score:2)
The key phrase is subassemblies are still produced in China.
So Cameras, Screens, Touch Screen, Speakers, Glass, maybe even the PCBs themselves... all still made in China.
India is just a screw bits together country to get around tariffs.
Is India actually tariff safer? (Score:2)
Consider the latest anti-Russia action, the 25% additional tariff on Indian goods (https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-the-russian-federation/). Of course, what gets slapped on quickly could come off quickly IF India weans itself from cheap Russian Oil. But that’s a pretty big IF.
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Weans itself off Russian oil might take a while. I don't know how much they use for their economy but they've been buying Russian oil cheap and then reselling it on the international market for nice tidy profit.
Prefer China (Score:2)
They've been made in China for a long time.
Making them in India is relatively new.
Everything else being equal (and I'm not claiming that they are), I'd prefer a China made phone, to reduce the chances of getting a phone with manufacturing defects.
Fortunately, I'm not in the market for a phone this year.
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> I'd prefer a China made phone, to reduce the chances of getting a phone with manufacturing defects
That’s funny ; you know, when Apple first moved iPhone production to China, people were saying the exact same thing about China.
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I'm sure.
Well, no new ideas under the sun and all that.
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Wow, you just made that up.
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Sure he did. We all know China was amazing and produced perfect high quality products throughout all of history, and no one has ever considered China to be a company producing nothing but low quality shit, and criticise companies who move production there. /s
What basis do you have for that comment to be made up? It seems like a truly obvious comment. Your comment on the other hand would be the same as if the OP said "the sky is blue" and you were saying they made that up too.
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According to [1]Bloomberg [bloomberg.com] (paywalled link, sorry), Apple has been building iPhones in India since the iPhone SE in 2017. I don't particularly recall hearing of any major QC issues with that phone.
Most of the major components are still sourced from the usual places (yes, I used ChatGPT for the following list and it looks to be more-or-less accurate):
China - A huge portion of the supply chain is still centered there. Many display assemblies, batteries, connectors, glass, and the lion’s share of final suba
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/apple-expands-iphone-production-in-india-for-us-bound-new-models
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The chances of having a manufacturing defect has nothing to do with location of something being made and everything to do with QA/QC oversight over said location. There's no reason to prefer a phone from one company from one country over another, especially considering you're ultimately covered by the same American company if something goes wrong.