Auto-rickshaws drive past the hoardings of Apple iPhone X mobile phones in Mumbai, India July 27, 2018. Picture taken July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Foxconn Technology Group chairman Terry Gou said the iPhone will go into mass production in India this year, a shift for the largest assembler of Apple Inc’s handsets that has long concentrated production in China.
Gou said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited him to India as his Taiwanese company plans its expansion in the country. Apple has had older phones produced at a plant in Bangalore for several years, but now will expand manufacturing to more recent models. Bloomberg News reported this month that Foxconn is ready to start trial production of the latest iPhones in the country before it starts full-scale assembly at its factory outside the southern city of Chennai.
