Apple keeps iPhone Duo in China, exposing limits of India's phone supply chain

<p class="P1" data-start="4221" data-end="4660">Apple's first foldable iPhone has become a test of how far India has come as a manufacturing base, and the answer is sobering. As India-assembled iPhones reach record export levels, Apple kept development and assembly of its most complex phone, the iPhone Duo, in China. The decision points to a gap that <em data-start="4526" data-end="4545">Pune Times Mirror</em> summed up this way: India has become indispensable to Apple's assembly operations, but not yet to its engineering.