VOA新闻杂志2022--苹果称将在印度生产iPhone14

Apple to Produce iPhone 14 in India

Apple will make its iPhone 14 in India, the company said on Monday.

Apple described the new phones in a statement, saying they have "new technologies and important safety capabilities¹." The statement added, "We're excited to be manufacturing iPhone 14 in India."

Apple showed its latest iPhone for the first time earlier this month. The new model will have a better camera, faster processors and longer lasting² batteries. The price is expected to remain the same as last year's phones.

India is the world's second-largest smartphone market after China. But Apple iPhone sales have not taken a large share of the market there.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing for local manufacturing, a main goal for his government since he took office in 2014.

Apple has bet big on India, where it first began manufacturing its iPhone SE in 2017. Apple has continued to put together a number of iPhones there. Apple opened its online store for India two years ago. Local media say COVID-19 delayed plans for a large physical store in India.

The latest model will be shipped out by Foxconn, a major iPhone assembler whose buildings are on the outside of Chennai, a city in southern India.

By 2025, Apple expects India will produce 25 percent of iPhones, reports the Press Trust of India.

Sanyam Chaurasia of Canalys, a technology market research company, said, "Apple has been trying to diversify³ its supply chain for a while."

Last year, Apple manufactured around 7 million iPhones in India.

Chaurasia said the plan to make more iPhones in India may also lead Apple to drop its prices for the Indian market, making it more competitive. "You can adopt a more aggressive pricing strategy if you manufacture locally," he said.

Most of Apple's smartphones and tablets are put together by other companies with factories in China. But Apple started asking them in 2020 to look at the possibility of moving some production to Southeast Asia or other places after repeated shutdowns to fight COVID-19 slowed its movement of products.

Apple has not released details, but news reports say the company planned to set up assembly of tablet computers and wireless⁴ earphones in Vietnam.

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bet – v. to make decisions that are based on the belief that something will happen or is true; to risk losing something (such as money) if your guess about what will happen is wrong

model – n. a particular type or version of a product (such as a car or computer)

assemble – v. to connect or put together the parts of (something, such as a toy or machine)

strategy – n. a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal usually over a long period of time

diversify - v. to change (something) so that it has more different kinds of people or things

adopt - v. to begin to use or have (a different manner, method, etc.)

tablet - n. a flat, rectangular computing⁵ device that is used for connecting to the Internet, watching videos, reading books, etc.

1 capabilities   

n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力

参考例句：

• He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
• Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

3 diversify   

v.（使）不同，（使）变得多样化

参考例句：

• Our company is trying to diversify.我们公司正力图往多样化方面发展。
• Hills and woods diversify the landscape.山陵和树木点缀景色。

4 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

5 computing   

n.计算

参考例句：

• to work in computing 从事信息处理
• Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。