Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 4: Amid recent protests in China, particularly at the Zhengzhou ‘iPhone City’ plant, Apple has accelerated preparations to shift production elsewhere. Apple’s ambitions to move its manufacture to other countries in Asia, primarily India and Vietnam, were prompted by the demonstrations.
According to a Wall Street Journal story, Apple is also aiming to lessen its reliance on Taiwanese assemblers led by the Foxconn Technology Group.
According to ANI, Foxconn’s factory in Zhengzhou, China, employs almost 300,000 people to produce iPhones and other Apple products. At one point, Zhengzhou alone produced roughly 85% of the iPhone Pro lineup, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research.
Late in November, tense demonstrations broke out at Foxconn’s largest iPhone manufacturing facility in Zhengzhou. Several social media images depicted employees protesting on the streets over wages and working conditions at the company’s China iPhone production.
Numerous employees protested at the Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou, China. Reports of unpaid salaries and strict COVID-19 rules within the company were the main causes of the disturbance. In some of the protest videos making the rounds online, workers are seen using sticks to damage security CCTVs.
Foxconn apologised for the incident in a formal statement when things got worse. The issue was attributed to a “technical fault” by the Apple supplier.
