AirPods To Be Made In India For the First Time Next Year (macrumors.com) 6
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple will begin making AirPods in India for the first time early next year, reports Bloomberg. Foxconn will make the wireless earphones at a factory near Hyderabad in Telangana state, beginning around Q1 2025. The factory has reportedly been making AirPods on a trial basis, with manufacturing set to ramp up quickly after production begins. It will make AirPods only the second major Apple product to be assembled in India after the iPhone.
The decision to set up production in India was requested by Apple back in 2023, according to a previous report. Foxconn officials apparently debated internally for months about whether to assemble AirPods due to the relatively low profit margins, but ultimately decided to go ahead with it to "reinforce engagement" with Apple. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government offers financial incentives to companies that produce wireless earphones and smartwatches locally, which influenced Apple's decision to move manufacturing there. The move is also part of Apple's plan to reduce its production reliance on China amid rising geopolitical tensions between the country and the United States.
The decision to set up production in India was requested by Apple back in 2023, according to a previous report. Foxconn officials apparently debated internally for months about whether to assemble AirPods due to the relatively low profit margins, but ultimately decided to go ahead with it to "reinforce engagement" with Apple. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government offers financial incentives to companies that produce wireless earphones and smartwatches locally, which influenced Apple's decision to move manufacturing there. The move is also part of Apple's plan to reduce its production reliance on China amid rising geopolitical tensions between the country and the United States.
Do I need to care? (Score:3)
I don't think so. Apple has always scammed its customers/victims regarding value-for-money, that they optimized this a bit now is really not news.
So we are gearing up for a Cold war with China (Score:3)
This will have far-reaching impacts on your life. What's worse is we are gearing up to fight a cold war with a nuclear power and the people at the very top are much much more incompetent than any of the people we had back when we fought the previous Cold war.
There's a saying that the way a big war gets st
Re: (Score:2)
Indeed. The Fermi-Paradox does not actually require climate-change from burning fossil fuels. The availability of Uranium to make big and impressive bombs for aggressive morons to attack their enemies with is quite enough.
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In order to fight the Soviet, the US reinvigorated China [wikipedia.org] (and betrayed ROC / Taiwan):
Nixon visited the PRC to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union, following the Sino-Soviet split. The normalization of ties culminated in 1979, when the U.S. transferred diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing and established full relations with the PRC.
Today, Americans are repeating the same "mistake". They don't seem to bother with the facts that India now has more and younger population than China. They will regret like they are regretting over Nixon and WTO.
quality of the clones (Score:1)