{"id":194957,"date":"2024-08-22T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/india-will-assemble-iphone-16-pro-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:24:42","slug":"india-will-assemble-iphone-16-pro-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/india-will-assemble-iphone-16-pro-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"India will assemble iPhone 16 Pro for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-will-assemble-iphone-16-pro-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is continuing to expand manufacturing in India, and the country will reportedly produce the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/iphone-16\" title=\"iPhone 16\">iPhone 16 Pro<\/a> and iPhone 16 Pro Max as well as the regular models.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, India only manufactured older iPhones, and then chiefly because it <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/06\/18\/apple-to-assemble-new-iphone-se-in-india-to-avoid-20-import-tax\">avoided import tax<\/a>. More recently in its expansion of production in the country, India has taken on manufacturing <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/01\/09\/apple-starts-iphone-15-trial-production-in-china-plans-faster-india-manufacturing\">current models<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/iphone-15\" title=\"iPhone 15\">iPhone 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, Apple intends to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-08-20\/apple-s-first-made-in-india-iphone-pro-models-coming-this-year\">expand still further<\/a>. For the first time, India will manufacture the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is continuing to expand manufacturing in India, and the country will reportedly produce the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max as well as the regular models. Originally, India only manufactured older iPhones, and then chiefly because it avoided import tax. More recently in its expansion of production in the country, India has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}