Foreign media called Guo Taiming "completely heartbroken".
Foxconn and Apple have a long history of cooperation, since Apple entered the Chinese iPhone mobile phone sales market, Foxconn has been OEM for Apple, and Foxconn, the big boss, is responsible for OEM for iPhone orders every year.
Foxconn has a close relationship with Apple, not Foxconn. Apple has been choosing more iPhone OEM cooperation in India and Chinese mainland to reduce dependence on Foxconn, foreign media said: Gou Taiming is completely disappointed.
Apple and Foxconn accelerate rollout in India.
Foxconn is Apple's largest foundry, and the two companies have a close relationship. Foxconn is responsible for making most of Apple's products, including iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers.
As one of the world's largest electronics manufacturing services companies, Foxconn has a large global production base and workforce to meet Apple's mass production needs, and in 2007 Foxconn became the main manufacturer of the first iPhone.
Since then, the cooperation between the two companies has deepened, and Foxconn has become an important production partner for Apple products. Some time ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited India, met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and identified long-term investment plans in India.
There are reports that Apple will also start developing a new iPhone 17 product in India. If this action is truly implemented, Apple will form a complete ecological chain integrating production, sales and R&D in India, and will completely gain a foothold in the Indian market. Foxconn is hugging Apple's thighs and is also expanding the Indian market.
Foxconn has pledged to double the number of employees in India and double the size of its investment by 2024. The Indian market is hugely attractive: India has a large pool of cheap labor and relatively low production costs.
This is a major attraction for manufacturing and labor-intensive industries. To support the development of the manufacturing economy, India warmly welcomes investment from Foxconn, Apple and Foxconn, giving them land and subsidies.
Apple reduces its dependence on Foxconn.
At first glance, Apple Foxconn developed in India, and Foxconn was indispensable for eating and drinking spicy food in the future. But in fact, Apple has been taking action to reduce its dependence on Foxconn.
In the Indian market, Foxconn is not the only iPhone foundry, India's Tata Group acquired the iPhone production line left by Wistron Information Communication's withdrawal from the Indian market, and won the iPhone OEM qualification for Apple. Subsequently, the Tata Group will also become one of Apple's iPhone foundries in India, and the iPhones produced will be sold in India and the global market.
The Tata Group is one of India's largest multinational conglomerates, with operations in the automotive, chemical, energy and other sectors. It's just that in the field of foundry, the Tata Group is relatively blank, and I didn't expect the Tata Group to enter the OEM field and work against the giant Apple.
In the Chinese market, Apple has also handed over more iPhone OEM to Langke Precision. Cook's second visit to China this year was not to Foxconn, but to Langke Precision to communicate with local employees.
Cook used to go to Foxconn, but now he doesn't mention Foxconn at all, which shows that Lucent Precision is increasingly at the core of Apple.
Although Foxconn is still Apple's OEM giant, Apple secretly wants to reduce its dependence on Foxconn. Foreign media said bluntly: When Guo Taiming said that building a factory in the mainland was to give mainlanders enough food and clothing, Guo Taiming was completely heartbroken.
I don't know if Terry Gou has thought that if it weren't for the mainland to provide Foxconn with development opportunities, Apple would not have been able to cooperate with him. In the end, Guo Taiming recognized the reality: who gives whom food?