Apple to Manufacture iPhone 12 in Bangalore, Likely to Cost Less than iPhone 11

Apple has only recently startedmanufacturing the iPhone 11 in India. However, a new report now suggests that the company will be manufacturing its 2020 flagship, the iPhone 12 in the country as well. The Business Standard report claims that Apple is investing huge sums in its Bengaluru plant for the process. This goes in line withrecent reportsthat Wistron, one of Apple’s manufacturing partners, is hiring 10,000 new employees for its plant in Karnataka.

Moreover, an ex-minister from Karnataka has also tweeted that Apple will be making the iPhone 12 in a new facility at Narsapura.

Good news for#Bengaluru, with ⁦@Apple⁩ planning to manufacture iPhone 12 in a new facility at Narsapura.

More investment to flow in & nearly 10,000 jobs maybe created.#China’s loss to be#India’s gain.https://t.co/3YysRbm7mR

— Dinesh Gundu Rao/ದಿನೇಶ್ ಗುಂಡೂರಾವ್ (@dineshgrao)August 18, 2020

All of this spells great news for the country’s Make in India initiative. With Apple manufacturing its flagship iPhone in India, we can also expect the new iPhone to be relatively more affordable than the iPhone 11.

As a quick refresher, the iPhone 11 was cheaper at launch than the iPhone XR in India. However, since Apple will be making the iPhone 12 in India from the get-go, it’s likely that the iPhone 12 will have a considerably lower price than the iPhone 11 since it will avoid import duties.

Obviously, that is something we have yet to see. However, bringing the price of the iPhone down in India will prove beneficial for Apple. The country’ssmartphone market may be big(even withslowing growth), but people simply don’t buy iPhones due to the high prices especially when compared to iPhone prices in the US and elsewhere.

This year, Apple is expected to launch four new iPhone models varying in screen sizes from 5.4-inches to 6.7-inches. The company has alreadyconfirmed a delayin the iPhone 12 launch, but we are expecting the phones to beunveiled in October.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

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