Apple Ramps Up iPhone Production in India

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Since the early days of the iPhone, Apple has made most of them in one country: China. It has the skilled labor and a network of suppliers necessary for speedy production. But in the past few years, Apple’s heavy reliance on China has started to look more like a risk. Now the company and its suppliers are looking to India to produce a quarter of the world’s iPhones in the next few years. WSJ South Asia bureau chief Tripti Lahiri joins host Alex Ossola to talk about what the shift means for Apple, for India and for consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.1	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, December 8th. I'm Alex Osola for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.4	Last month, Open AI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was pushed out, only to be
0:30.6	reinstated in a matter of days.
0:32.8	Who made those decisions?
0:34.3	The company's board members.
0:35.9	We speak with W.S.J. Tech reporter Megan Babbrowski
0:38.9	for an inside look at what happened at Open AI.
0:42.0	Then, another company where big changes are happening,
0:45.0	Apple.
0:46.0	More than a quarter of the world's iPhones may soon be made in India,
0:50.0	as Apple and its suppliers plan to shift more production away from China.
0:54.0	We'll hear from W.S.J. South Asia Bureau Chief Tripty Lahiri about why Apple is making the switch
0:59.5	and what it could mean for India and the tech company.
1:08.9	But before we get into that, last month, the board controlling open AI, the company
1:11.0	behind chat gp.
1:11.6	GPT, pushed out co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.
1:15.6	The board said that Altman wasn't being quote consistently candid in his
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