{"id":663,"date":"2023-01-30T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=663"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:22:35","slug":"airpods-made-in-india-closer-to-reality-as-enclosure-manufacturing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/airpods-made-in-india-closer-to-reality-as-enclosure-manufacturing-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods made in India closer to reality, as enclosure manufacturing begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AirPods-made-in-India.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the steps <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> is expected to take in reducing its dependence on <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a> is to have some <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/airpods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AirPods<\/a> made in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">India<\/a> \u2013 in addition to those <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/07\/17\/reduce-dependence-on-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already made in Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already asked two of its AirPods suppliers <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/10\/05\/airpods-to-be-made-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to move some of that work to India<\/a>, and it\u2019s today reported that Apple has commissioned an Indian company to produce the plastic enclosures for the in-ear devices \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"airpods,china,india\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"861228\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/01\/30\/airpods-made-in-india\/#more-861228\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the steps Apple is expected to take in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airpods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}