Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures as he shows up for a conference with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on April 17, 2024.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook stated the business will “look at” production in Indonesia, following a conference with the nation’s President Joko Widodo, at a time when the iPhone giant continues to diversify its supply chain far from China.
“We talked about the president’s desire to see manufacturing in the country and it’s something that we will look at,” Cook informed press reporters after the conference.
“I think the investment ability in Indonesia is endless. I think that there’s a lot of great places to invest. And we’re investing. We believe in the country.”
Over the previous 3 years, Apple has actually been accelerating its push to diversify its production base beyond China after the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the Cupertino giant’s dependence on the world’s second-largest economy.
Covid interrupted operations and production at Apple’s primary iPhone factory in China, run by its assembly partner Foxconn.
Apple has actually considering that looked for to expand its base of production.
Vietnam has actually been an essential recipient, turning into one of Apple’s most significant production centers beyondChina Products such as the MacBook, iPad and Apple Watch are being made there. Cook remained in Vietnam previously today.
Apple has actually likewise increase its production in India.
Apple now makes around 1 in 7, or 14%, of its iPhones in India, two times the quantity it produced there in 2015, according to a report from Bloomberg.
