Apple Inc is angling to participate in a new scheme to boost India’s exports of computer products, part of what plans to bring iPad tablet manufacturing to the South Asian country according to the Financial Post The new performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, which offers cash-back to manufacturers for exports, will...
Apple India Offers Built To Order Macs
Apple, Inc is finally giving customers in India the ability to order customized versions of iMac, MacBook Air, Mac Mini and other Mac computers according to TechCrunch. Customers in India can now request specific custom needs such as additional memory, storage or a more powerful graphics card when they purchase...
Manufacturers of Phones, Footwear To Make In India
The city that is home to the Taj Mahal, Agra, also has a thriving leather and shoe industry. Last week, Germany's Casa Everz Gmbh, owner of the brand Von Wellx, decided to shift its entire production from China to Agra, India. The brand is known for benefits such as relieving foot,...
Smart Phone Sales Continue to Rise
Smartphone suppliers in India shipped 46.6 million units in the most recent quarter, an increase of 9.3 percent from the previous quarter. The average selling price is much lower than in the West, just $159 and top brands are all Asian companies, Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Realme and Oppo. However. the iPhone...
90% of Foxconn's Sri City Plant in India Are Women
At Foxconn Technology Group’s mobile phone plant in Sri City, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, of the nearly 15,000 workers 90% are women who assemble phones for various manufacturers, including Xiaomi. Recently, workers began testing and assembling Apple’s iPhone X, which will be sold in India first and eventually...
Europe Sources iPhones Made in India
Cupertino, CA-based Apple has started to export iPhones to some European markets from India; the total number of iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 models exported so far to Europe are about 100,000 units a month. Initially, Apple's vendor set up iPhone manufacturing in India to avoid import taxes and allow...