Your Next iPhone Might Come From India, Instead Of China

Foxconn  Sriperumbudur

Reuters is telling us in an exclusive report, that the Apple Inc manufacture iPhones with Foxconn India as early as 2019. This is the first time Foxconn manufactured iPhones anywhere other than China.
What makes it even more interesting is that, according to a source familiar with the matter, Foxconn will be assembling the most expensive models, like iPhone X family making Apple India's future solid as well as the Foxconn's.

Foxconn already has a plant in Sriperumbudur town in Tamil Nadu, a southern resourceful state in India. Perhaps the work will begin there.  Foxconn  makes phones for Xiaomi Corp in India in this plant so it is possible that iPhones will come out of here as well
Foxconn will invest $356 million or 25 billion Indian rupees to expand the plant, according to Tamil Nadu’s Industries Minister M C Sampath. As well as the monetary investment, this will also bring about 25000 jobs to the talented human resource pool in India.

This also could be a move by Apple to limit the impact of a trade war between the United States and China.This is not the first time iPhones were manufactured in India, Apple had Wistron Corp’s local unit in the Bengaluru technology hub assemble the lower-cost SE and 6S models, which were also the focus of Apple's sales in India. But it could mostly be that Apple, widening assembly beyond China to mitigate the risks of the Sino-U.S. trade war.

Reuters

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Xiaomi MI4

Samsung is leading the World wide mobile phone market with having 78.1 million units shipped and Apple following with 39.3 units shipped. The new comer to the charts, Xiaomi beats Lenovo, LG and others to garner position 3 with 17.3 million units shipped.
Even though Samsung leads the market, it lost 8.2% of the market share over the year. Apple had a growth of 16.1 and again the Xiaomi is the leader in this arena with 211.3 growth over the year. Xiaomi growth is attributed to it's focus on China and adjacent markets and the company's flagship phone. MI4, released in August this year. MI4 competes with Samsung S5 and iPhone, specially in China and east Asia.
“Despite rumors of a slowing market, smartphone shipments continue to see record-setting volumes. We’ve finally reached a point where most developed markets are experiencing single-digit growth while emerging markets are still growing at more than 30 percent collectively,” said Ryan Reith, program director with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

Top Five Smartphone Vendors, Shipments, Market Share and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q3 2014 Preliminary Data (Units in Millions)

Vendor	2014Q3 Shipment Volumes	2014Q3 Market Share	2013Q3 Shipment Volumes	2013Q3 Market Share	3Q14/3Q13 Change
1. Samsung	78.1	23.8%	85.0	32.5%	-8.2%
2. Apple	39.3	12.0%	33.8	12.9%	16.1%
3. Xiaomi	17.3	5.3%	5.6	2.1%	211.3%
4. Lenovo*	16.9	5.2%	12.3	4.7%	38.0%
4. LG*	16.8	5.1%	12.0	4.6%	39.8%
Others	159.2	48.6%	113.0	43.2%	40.8%
Total	327.6	100.0%	261.7	100.0%	25.2%

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, October 29, 2014,
Press release.