But that was at Amazon. At my current gig, the India based teams are great. Not quite up to the standards of the US teams, but I'm sure they're more cost effective. They're also hungry for more interesting responsibilities, and are proactively improving things. It makes me think that Amazon just had shitty management over there.

There are some Apple products already being made in Vietnam. I believe that some iPhone work is going there soon, as well.

India of late has a capricious regulation problem which makes it difficult for tech firms to have predictability.

And everyone already knows you can get decent quality manufacturing done in Vietnam. India would like to be considered in that same group.

Therefore it's in Apple's interest to present India with the opportunity to demonstrate that capability, while giving Apple a measure of leverage in cases where India's government is considering outlawing encryption or unmoderated forums or the shift key or whatever they think will make people stop complaining about them today.

https://www.investopedia.com/apple-moves-production-vietnam-...

I imagine once Apple is confident they will likely add more products there.