Apple gives Tata iPhone repair business for India
APPLE HAS BROUGHT in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian mar-ket, signalling the Indian con-glomerate’s deepening role in the US techgiant’s supply chain, two people familiar with the matter said.
ASApple looks beyond China for manufacturing, Tata has fast emerged as its key supplier and already assembles iPhones for local and foreign markets at three facilities in south India, with one of them also making some iPhone components.
In its latest partnership expansion, Tata is taking over the mandate from an Indian unit of Taiwan’s Wistron, ICT Service Management Solutions, and will carry out such after sales repairs from its Karnataka iPhone assembly campus, both sources said. The market for repairs is only going to boom in India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, as iPhone sales skyrocket. Coun terpoint Research estimates around 11 million iPhones were sold in India last year, giving Apple a 7% market share, com-
pared to just 1% in 2020.
Satinder Duggal
