iPhone Success Story: Revealing the India’s Manufacturing Boom

DOI: https://doie.org/10.10399/APER.2025695863

Authors:

Dr. Priyanka Gandhi, Dr. Silky Madan, Dr. Geeta Sharma

Keywords:

Manufacturing, Mobile Phone, Infrastructure

Abstract:

Thanks to the success of important industries including automotive, engineering, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer durables, manufacturing is starting to stand out as a crucial pillar of the nation's economic growth. Prior to the epidemic, the manufacturing sector in India accounted for 16–17% of the country's GDP, and it is expected to increase at one of the quickest rates. Today's technology has fostered creativity, and gaining an advantage in this fiercely competitive business requires a digital transformation. It is anticipated that increased automation and process-driven manufacturing will boost productivity and efficiency in India's manufacturing industry.[1]
India has always done well in the service sector , but for the years the manufacturing is less than 15% of GDP, employing only 11% of population and exporting 2% of global goods. But historically it is advent that no country can rise without manufacturing sector boost. Driven by government incentives and growing worldwide demand, India's mobile phone manufacturing sector expects to create 150,000 to 250,000 direct and indirect jobs during the next 12 to 16 months. To accommodate rising manufacturing demands, major companies including Dixon Technologies, Apple, and its contract manufacturers are hiring more people.
iPhone Success Story in India.

Apple’s remarkable success on the India’s land has various lessons for the policy makers since the time Apple’s iPhone choose India as its second manufacturing location.
Its rapid success busts some myths . iPhone, made entirely in China until 2021, has already created more than 6 Lakhs direct and indirect jobs while producing phones worth $14bn and exporting 10bn a year. This is only 14% of iPhone global production and is expected to rise to 26% by 2026 according to JP Morgan. To become a viable exporting hub, India still needs to attract iPhone’s component makers, which represent the 85% of the value aid. This story offers many lessons that can be analysed through the case.[2]
 

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