Apple assembler Foxconn to begin AirPods production in southern India early next year
Apple assembler Foxconn will begin producing AirPods wireless earphones in India for the first time early next year, marking a milestone in Apple’s diversification efforts out of Chinese Communist party-controlled China.
Yian Lee and Sankalp Phartiyal for Bloomberg News:
A unit of supplier Foxconn Technology Group will start the assembly of AirPods at a new factory near Hyderabad in Telangana state around the first quarter of next year, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named as the matter is private. The factory is already making AirPods on a trial basis, and manufacturing will ramp up quickly after production begins, they said.
The earphone devices would then become only the second major Apple product to be assembled in India, after the iPhone. The US company has rapidly expanded its manufacturing network in the country, thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s subsidies, a skilled workforce and advances in India’s technological capabilities. India is now a key part of the company’s effort to reduce its dependence on China as tensions flare between Washington and Beijing. Donald Trump’s re-election in the US could further speed that shift beyond China by companies such as Apple.
MacDailyNews Note: Beyond China, AirPods are also assembled in Vietnam.
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