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Apple is now assembling iPhone 16 Professional models in India, giving its native manufacturing efforts an enormous increase.
It additionally plans to open 4 new Apple Shops in India to broaden its presence additional.
Apple’s manufacturing efforts in India get one other increase
Apple started manufacturing in India in 2017. Nonetheless, after the COVID-19 pandemic, the corporate requested its suppliers to spice up their manufacturing efforts in India to scale back its reliance on China.
Usually, there was a niche of some months between a brand new iPhone occurring sale and its meeting starting in India. Apple labored with its suppliers over the past couple of years to scale back this hole. Nonetheless, it solely utilized to the non-Professional iPhones.
With the iPhone 16 Professional, the corporate is popping one other leaf in its Indian manufacturing efforts. Inside a month of its new flagship iPhone occurring sale, it’s already being assembled within the nation. Apple made this transfer regardless of one among its provider’s factories in India catching fireplace a number of days in the past.
A number of experiences beforehand indicated Apple’s elevated efforts to make the iPhone 16 Professional in India quickly after its launch. Along with assembly native demand, the corporate will export the Indian-assembled iPhone 16 Professional models. With this addition, Apple suppliers are assembling all the iPhone 16 lineup in India.
Extra Apple Shops to open in India
Apple’s senior Vice President of Retail, Deirdre O’Brien, additionally confirmed in a press release that the corporate will open 4 extra retail shops within the nation. The corporate at present operates two retail shops in India, one in Delhi and one other in Mumbai. The primary retailer opened in April 2023 after years of delay, with Tim Cook dinner and different high-profile Apple executives attending the launch.
The brand new shops can be positioned in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi, and Mumbai and can reportedly open by subsequent 12 months.