The Price Of The IPhone 15 Was Reduced When It Was Launched, And The Indians Made Cook Anxious

 

After the iPhone 15 was released, a Taiwanese executive who worked at Foxconn in India resigned overnight and fled back to the mainland to join BYD.

 

A trip to India made them cherish the work of the motherland more, and said with emotion: Here is the same culture, the same species, good food, good housing, smooth work, or their own people are close to us! - Well, a trip to India is more useful than any patriotic education.

 

Not only Foxconn employees, but even Apple itself has been pitted by the Indians.

 

I don't know if you have noticed: the decline in iPhone sales coincides with the timeline of Apple's construction of a factory in India. Indians are not responsible for the decline in iPhone sales, at least they are to blame.

 

Approaching Double 11, Apple officials finally couldn't bear it anymore and announced that the iPhone15 price would be reduced by 700 yuan! You know, the iPhone 15 is the flagship phone that just went on sale last month.

 

This is also the second time that Apple has "reduced prices when it goes on the market". Since Apple moved the production line to India last year, and Indians participated in production, the price of iPhone 14 has been reduced by 300 yuan one month after it was launched.

 

You must know that from the iPhone1 to the iPhone13 for the entire 13th generation of products, Apple's price has been very strong, and there has never been a "price reduction when it is listed". Generally, the price will not be reduced until half a year after the launch of a new product or before the next generation of new products is launched.

 

As a result, as soon as the Indians took over, the price of the iPhone was reduced, which can only be said that the whole world has no confidence in Made in India. There are even a lot of videos on the Internet on how to teach everyone how to avoid buying a "made in India" iPhone.

 

Apple's official customer service was annoyed by the fans, and made an announcement saying: If you are not at ease with the mobile phone you bought, you can apply for a refund within 14 days.

Why are global fans so boycotting Indian-made iPhones? Because before the iPhone15 was released, there were various reports of the low yield rate of the Indian iPhone, coupled with the unreliable national character of the Indians, which completely shattered the impression of the high quality of the iPhone.

 

Before the iPhone15 was released, India's Foxconn reported that the yield rate of the mobile phone cases they received from India's Tata Group was very low, with only 50% of qualified products, which seriously slowed down the assembly speed.

 

This incident directly alarmed Cook, who was far away in the United States, and he personally ordered the transfer of a batch of mobile phone cases from China to rescue India, so that Foxconn barely caught up with the shipment date.

 

But when it came time to assemble, the Indian workers had a new problem. A supervisor from Taiwan complained: You can never know where the Indians planted a bomb for you.

 

Sometimes it's paint peeling, sometimes it's dust on the camera, sometimes it's scratches. The meeting on safety production was held every day, and whatever the Taiwan supervisor said, they all nodded yes and had a good attitude. But when it comes to the production process, the old problem still does not change.

 

Foxconn threatened to fire the loose workers, and the Indians immediately organized a protest when they returned to the dormitory. It is worth learning from the fact that Indian workers attach great importance to the protection of individual rights.

 

The hapless Foxconn withdrew its decision to fire a worker while begging them to return to work. After being promised higher food standards and free drinking water, Indians are returning to work.

 

Although the Taiwanese supervisor who was transferred to work in India has doubled his salary, he has no choice but to adapt to anything - eating Indian food and diarrhea, no one listens to the work arrangement, and he wants to go shopping around the factory on weekends, just like in Africa.

 

A Taiwanese supervisor resigned overnight and returned to the mainland to take refuge in BYD, and a trip to India made them cherish their work on the mainland even more, and said with emotion: Here is the same culture, the same species, good food, good housing, smooth work, or our own people are close to us! - Well, a trip to India is more useful than any patriotic education.

 

Why can't India make a good iPhone? The reason is the same as in the United States - there is no talent.

 

When Jobs was alive, Obama asked him: The iPhone is so profitable, why can't it transfer some of its production capacity back to the United States and create some jobs?

 

Jobs replied very seriously: The iPhone will never be produced in the United States again, and this is not a patriotic issue, but a question of industrial division of labor.

 

The United States does not have the engineers and skilled workers needed to produce the iPhone, and there are many lawyers and financiers who do not even know how many models of screws there are.

 

Americans, accustomed to living in affluence, are reluctant to work on the assembly line, and American universities are no longer training engineers, but instead training artists, financiers, and lawyers—all of which are parasitic classes that do not produce any actual products of labor.

 

Let's take a look at the super-rich in the United States:
Bill Gates, Besso who sells software,

Zuckerberg who tore up the online store,

Warren Buffett who engages in social networking,

and none of whom are engaged in physical manufacturing.

The only exception is that Musk is not a native of the United States, and his hometown is in South Africa. If he had grown up in the United States and had been exposed to it since he was a child, he might have gone to work on Wall Street.

 

With this kind of industrial structure and social atmosphere, how do you ask Apple to produce iPhones in the United States? The Chinese build better and cheaper.

 

India's situation is exactly the same as that of the United States, where it does not have the engineers and skilled workers needed to develop manufacturing.

 

India's education is for the training of talents for Europe and the United States, and it is not responsible for the development of the country at all.

 

Europe and the United States need software talents, and they train software engineers - more than half of the executives in Silicon Valley are Indians; Europe and the United States need financiers, and they train financial and accounting talents – the British prime minister of Indian origin once served at Goldman Sachs.

 

While we envy the fact that American corporate executives are occupied by Indians, we must also see the sadness behind it - the top Indian talent has run out.

 

India's higher education has been completely reduced to a vassal of the European and American markets.

 

India urgently needs manufacturing talents, smart people are not willing to learn, because they can't find a decent job in India, anyway, they have to go to Europe and the United States in the future, of course, they choose the major that Europe and the United States need!

 

Do you remember the movie "Three Fools in Bollywood" in Imperial College London, where there was a student hiding in the dormitory to develop drones?

 

It was a 2009 film when Indians had discovered the potential of drones, only to be reprimanded by the principal for not graduating him and driving the students to death.

 

Although it is a movie, it also reflects the reality of India: no matter how good an engineer is born in this country, it is difficult to realize his value. If that student had done it, there would have been nothing to do with DJI now.

 

This is the underlying logic that India cannot make qualified iPhones, and this is also the fundamental reason why we now attach importance to junior college education and enhance the status of junior colleges.