In the past years, the main production lines of Apple's iPhone and other products have almost all been in mainland China. In the early days, Foxconn was an OEM product of Apple . Now Luxshare Precision , Goertek and other companies have also entered the fruit chain and become Apple's OEM factory.
The main reasons why Apple has placed its main OEM factory in mainland China are two main reasons. First of all, The production lines of electronic components are basically in Asian countries such as China, and the proportion of Chinese supply chain companies is very high.
According to previous statistics from third parties, 90% of Apple's supply chain and factories are in China. According to factors such as transportation costs, Apple's production line is undoubtedly the most suitable choice for mainland China.
followed by China has relatively cheap labor, and China's industrial workers are skilled in technology, high efficiency and obey arrangements. Apple has the production line in mainland China, which is definitely the most suitable one.
However, with the continuous friction between China and the United States in the past two years, the uncertainty factors have been greatly increased. Against this background, Apple is also deliberately getting rid of its dependence on the mainland Chinese market and is joining Foxconn to move the iPhone production line out of China.
In recent years, Termine Gou has moved its factories to India, Vietnam and other countries, and has begun to produce iPhones in India. began to produce iPhone SE for Apple as early as 2017.
Then in April this year, Apple announced that it would start producing iPhone 13 in India, plus the latest iPhone 14, and the Indian factory has already produced five iPhones. Recently, Apple made it clear that is very happy to be able to produce iPhone 14 in India.
. Apple does this with the goal of in order to diversify the supply chain and avoid over-dependence on China. It is reported that Apple plans to transfer one-quarter of iPhone production to India by 2025, and 5% of iPhone 14 will be produced in India by the end of 2022.
It can be seen that it has become a major trend for Apple's production line to be transferred to India. With the increasing experience of Indian factories, there will be more iPhones to be moved to India in the future, but Apple's move will definitely pay the price, because it has begun to happen now.
In the past, Apple released a new phone, which usually sold in the Chinese market, and there will be a significant premium in the short term, but since the release of the iPhone 14 series, the situation has not been so clear.
There is a media interview with scalpers. The Chinese version of iPhone 14 now needs to be sold for 100 yuan. iPhone 14 planned to make hundreds of thousands of dollars this year before it was released, but after it was released, it lost hundreds of thousands a day. This is the dilemma of scalpers who reselled iPhone 14 this year.
The new iPhone used to be like a financial product, you can earn it by grabbing it. No one expected that This year's iPhone 14 can no longer realize their dream of getting rich.
The author saw the distributor's quote in his circle of friends. The 512GB version of iPhone 14 is 7,699 yuan, which is equivalent to a direct drop of more than 1,000 yuan. Due to poor sales performance, Apple OEM Foxconn has also started to take action a few days ago.
There is news that due to the fact that iPhone 14 sales are lower than expected , Zhengzhou Foxconn is demolishing some production lines of iPhone 14, at least 5. Foxconn's actions once again reflect that Chinese people are no longer as impulsive about the new Apple phones as before.
relies on the Chinese market to become bigger and stronger, and then starts the operation of "unlocking the grind and killing the donkey". I believe that many Chinese people see Apple's move, which is directly reflected in the iPhone 14 series products.
As Apple's correlation with mainland China becomes less and less, fewer and fewer Chinese people will choose Apple phones in the future. What's more, Domestic Huawei and other manufacturers have become stronger and bigger, and consumers have completely more suitable and safer choices.
So will you consider buying an iPhone 14? Comments, likes, and sharing are welcome to share and talk about your views.
