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Andy Mukherjee, the brown sepoy at the helm of maligning India at Bloomberg, carried out a hit job in an article titled 'Apple's iPhone Factories Won't Make India the Next China'.

MeitY stated that it took "serious note" of the security scare related to eMudhra, which led Google, Apple to take action.

Apple has removed Jack Dorsey’s offline messaging app, BitChat, from the Indian App Store following a government order. The tool, which uses Bluetooth to bypass internet blocks, gained traction during recent CJP protests, raising serious national security concerns.

The iPhone 18 Pro queues reveal less about technological necessity and more about human psychology about status, FOMO and the desire to be seen spending big on a smartphone.

The Cupertino-based Apple Inc. appears to be effectively subsidising its American customers through a discriminatory pricing strategy for the new iPhone 18 Pro series and iPhone Duo, charging Indian consumers substantially more than their counterparts in the US for the same devices.

Under the India-US trade agreement, the Indian government has reduced import duty on US apples from 50% to 25%, coupled with a Minimum Import Price (MIP) of Rs 75 to 80 per kg. This move effectively prevents very cheap and apples from flooding Indian markets and harming the business of local growers, as the landed cost would be around Rs 100 per kg or more after duty.

Reports say the talks between Indian semiconductor companies and Apple center on outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OAST) processes, particularly, the backend steps of assembling dies into finished chips and packaging them, rather than full chip fabrication.