Apple has reportedly started working on the base model of iPhone 17, which Apple company can launch in the month of September 2025 next year. Last month, Apple launched the iPhone 16 series across the world including India, which includes 4 phones – iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. Till now, users around the world have not even finished discussing iPhone 16, now the news of manufacturing of iPhone 17 has started coming.
iPhone 17 prototype
Especially, this news can be very special for the iPhone lovers of India, because according to the report, for the first time, the Indian factory will work to convert the prototype of iPhone 17 into a mass production model. This will be the first time that an Indian iPhone manufacturing unit will take on such a big responsibility. This also shows the excellent and rapid success of India’s phone manufacturing units. This news has been received in a report by The Information citing people familiar to him.
Perhaps, there is a possibility of some significant improvement in the display and processing power of the iPhone 17 to be released in September 2025. Let us tell you that this will be the first time that Apple will manufacture and develop a new iPhone outside China. Earlier, Apple had not done iPhone development work in any other country except China, but this time the company has chosen India.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, quoting a report by MacRumors website, had said that ‘introductory production’ of the standard iPhone 17 should start in India in the second half of 2025. Kuo said that to reduce the potential risk in the design, the standard iPhone has been chosen and not the Pro model iPhone.
Popularity of iPhone increased rapidly in India
Kuo also estimated that Foxconn’s production levels in Zhengzhou and Taiyuan, China, could reduce by 75-85% by 2024, as Apple expands production in India. Actually, Apple is developing and manufacturing new models for the first time in India because Apple’s popularity has increased a lot in India in the last few years and Apple’s products, especially iPhone, have achieved a lot of success in India. On the other hand, exactly the opposite has been seen in China. Both Apple’s popularity and success have decreased in China.
According to Bloomberg News sources, American company Apple exported about $6 billion worth of iPhones manufactured in India, which marks a one-third increase in value compared to the previous year. This growth indicates that annual exports could potentially cross the $10 billion mark in FY 2024. iPhones form a major part of India’s smartphone exports. Apple has partnered with Foxconn, Pegatron and Tata-owned Wistron to produce iPhones in India. Now it remains to be seen when and what the next big news about this comes.
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Apple iPhone exports in the country increased by 33%, the figure reached $6 billion from April to September.