Apple supplier Jabil begins making AirPods components in India
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Apple supplier Jabil begins making AirPods components in India
Monday, January 30, 2023 9:00 amNo Comments
Apple supplier Jabil has begun making components for AirPods in India, marking a significant step in Apple’s push to diversify production, and reduce its dependence on China by expanding production in India.
Sankalp Phartiyal for Bloomberg News:
The Indian unit of Jabil Inc. has begun shipping AirPods enclosures, or plastic bodies, to China and Vietnam, where the wireless earphones are assembled, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named as the move isn’t public.
Apple is building out production in India to reduce its reliance on China, where US trade restrictions and Covid-related disruptions have made manufacturing more risky. Its India output has thus far been limited to the iPhone, making AirPods the second Apple product now partially manufactured in the country.
US manufacturing services provider Jabil operates a 858,000 square foot (80,000 square meter) facility employing more than 2,500 workers in Pune, western India, according to its website…
New Delhi has given initial clearances to more than a dozen of its Chinese suppliers to ramp up via joint ventures with Indian partners. Luxshare Precision Industry Co Ltd., one of Apple’s Chinese suppliers which makes AirPods, is among the companies gaining that approval. Luxshare in 2020 agreed to take over a shuttered Motorola plant in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, but is yet to begin manufacturing Apple products locally.
MacDailyNews Take: At a Software conference in May 2007, then Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander was asked about Apple’s iPhone, due to be released the next month, “How do you deal with that?” Zander quickly retorted, “How do they deal with us?”
Answer: They turn your plants into shuttered hulks to be purchased for pennies on the dollar in order to be repurposed to make Apple iPhone accessories, that’s how.
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