Apple yeeted a quarter of iPhone production to India

25% of iPhones are now made in India, up from 7% last year.

That’s not a “diversifying the supply chain” vibe. That’s Apple looking at China risk and going, “Cool, love you, but I’m not dying on this hill with Tim Cook’s jawline on the tombstone.”

TechCrunch says it’s roughly one in four iPhones coming out of India now, with about 50,000 jobs tied to the ramp. Apple’s reportedly aiming for 100 million iPhones a year from India by 2027, which is an absolutely psychotic number until you remember Apple sells “phones” the way McDonald’s sells “food.”

This is Apple threading a needle: keep China’s manufacturing machine in the loop while building a second engine in India so a trade war, a shutdown, or a “whoops we sanctioned your vendor” moment doesn’t turn iPhone season into Hunger Games.

And yes, “jobs” is the talking point because it’s the only wholesome word in this whole story.

Meanwhile, every country on Earth is learning the same lesson: if you want Apple to bless your economy, you don’t need democracy—you need factories, subsidies, and the willingness to be yelled at by a spreadsheet.