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Is the Indian manufacturing industry for phones on par with China’s yet?


No. It is mainly assembling products for which processes have been stabilized. Last time Apple did in India it was huge ruckus, with factory owner not paying workers for months, housing facilities and so on. This time hopefully it should be better.

It would be small plant to cover some sales for high income people in low income countries. To put in perspective it is about ~5 million / year Iphones sales in India. In China that number is 7 million Iphones / month.


Unlikely, considering China has a headstart of several decades in electronics and consumer devices production. Not to mention a centralized, completely tuned governance and infrastructure policy for massive industries as against India's federal democratic government that has been mostly anti-capitalist until the 21st century.




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