Apple has started assembling its iPhone 13 in India at the Foxconn plant in Tamil Nadu. The move could help Apple save on import duties and keep control over supplies. The Foxconn plant also manufactures the iPhone 12 and iPhone 11 in India.
The move comes after the government introduced a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme that promotes the manufacturing and assembling of smartphones in the country. Moreover, the move also further helps US-based Apple to rely less on China for making its smartphones.It remains unclear when the locally assembled iPhones will hit the market in India. However, this shouldn’t take much longer now that the process has already begun.
We are excited to begin making iPhone 13 — with its beautiful design, advanced camera systems for stunning photos and videos, and the incredible performance of the A15 Bionic chip — right here in India for our local customers,” Apple said in a statementApple has in the past announced it has “more than doubled the number of suppliers committed to using 100 percent clean energy over the last year.” Eleven Apple supplier sites in India have now committed to 100 per cent renewable energy.
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The iPhone 13 is currently priced at Rs 79,900 for the 128GB base version and Rs 89,900 for the 256GB version. While the move to manufacture units locally will help Apple to reportedly save up to 20 per cent on import duties, it remains unclear if this will bring down the price of iPhone 13 variants in India for the customers
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Apple also has a global pricing strategy that is unlikely to be affected by local manufacturing in a country. We will simply have to wait and see if the prices are actually affected.a?.13
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Analyst firm Piper Sandler undertakes two surveys of US teenagers per year, with the last one covering Fall 2021. Its newly-released Spring 2022 report shows Apple either broadly retaining its popularity with some devices, or increasing it with others.
According to Piper Sandler, 87% of the 7,100 teenagers surveyed across 44 US states, currently own an iPhone. That's the same as in the previous report, where Apple had managed to increase ownership from 86% in the one beforeMore marked change cane with the proportion of teens already owning the latest model. In the new Spring 2022 survey, approximately 18% owned an iPhone 13, "well ahead" of the approximately 12% who owned an iPhone 12 in the previous report.
Similarly, a record percentage of teens surveyed now own an Apple Watch. Piper Sandler's says that the ownership share is around 34
That 34% is up from the previous survey's 30%. The percentage of teens intending to buy in the next six months was up to 14% from the previous 13
Teen iPhone ownership (Source: (Piper Sandler)%.%.
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