Apple has started producing the iPhone 13 again at the Foxconn factory located in Chennai, India. This means that the factory has escaped probation from Apple after the problems that occurred at the factory.
The Foxconn factory in the city, which is located in South India, was previously the subject of much news. The factory in December 2021 stopped operating after hundreds of its workers were hospitalized due to food poisoning, which then sparked demonstrations from other workers who were not food poisoning.
In an investigation conducted by Reuters, it was revealed that the living conditions of the workers at the factory were pathetic. The female workers who work there have to live in dormitories without flushable toilets, as well as food that is sometimes infested with maggots.
In the investigation, Reuters spoke to six women who worked at the iPhone assembly factory. Everyone asked not to be named for fear for his safety.
In their dorm rooms, the female workers sleep on the floor, where one room accommodates six to 30 people. Then another worker said that they lived in an inn where the toilet did not have clean water supply.
Apple then took action on the allegations of the deplorable working conditions. The decision was that Apple gave the factory a trial period, which only ended in April 2022. Whereas previously Apple planned to produce the iPhone 13 at the factory in January.
As a result, only now, seven months after it was released in India, the production of the iPhone 13 was carried out in Chennai. These products will later be sold in the Indian market and also imported to other countries, as quoted by us from 9to5Mac, Wednesday (6/4/2022).
It is not known which countries will receive the iPhone 13 made in India. But what is clear is that this is one of Apple's ways to diversify its production network throughout the world, so that it is less dependent on China.