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Google To Manufacture Pixel Smartphones in India (techcrunch.com) 17

Google plans to begin assembling its Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant to bet on the South Asian market for devices manufacturing. From a report: The company intends to start the local manufacturing with the current lineup -- both the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro -- in India and expects to ship the India-made batch starting next year, Rick Osterloh, Senior VP of Devices and Services at Google, shared at the company's annual India event Thursday. India is a key overseas market for Google, which identifies the world's most populous nation as its largest for many of its services including Android, Google Search, YouTube by user count. Thursday's announcement follows Google, which has committed to invest over $10 billion in country over the the next few years, recently partnering with HP to manufacture Chromebook laptops in India.
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  • India is not China. India is the world's largest democracy and has huge potential for growth in its domestic market, not just exports. Good luck, India.
    • Re:Ok. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Gibgezr ( 2025238 ) on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:59AM (#63937063)

      If only they weren't murdering foreign citizens in peaceful countries like Canada. India's government is super right-wing and quite nasty: just a different flavour of "batshit crazy" than China.

  • by sdinfoserv ( 1793266 ) on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:35AM (#63937007)
    India has refused to criticize Russia for the for the Ukraine war. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20... [npr.org]
    Worse yet, India is one of the BRICs nations who's goal is to unseat the United States as the global world power including advocating getting off the US dollar as the world reserve currency. https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
    India is essentially an enemy of the US state with out actually declaring it so. So, go ahead corporate whores, throw your money at a country who's intent is the downfall of the US. The only way to return prosperity to the US is to return manufacturing jobs here.
    • by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:41AM (#63937025)

      BRICS is more of a meme than a real, tangible alliance, especially considering the problems SA is going through as well as Brazil and India not really being against the US in any real tangible way and you're still left with just the R and the C.

      The US and India have good relations and Biden and Modi have worked on advancing both forward: https://apnews.com/article/bid... [apnews.com]

      India refusing to criticize is also different than India supporting Russia's war effort.

      That's not to say there are problems with Modi's religious fundamentalism or whatever he is doing but it's in both the US and India's interests to move economic relations forward.

      US manufacturing is also on a pretty decent upswing with the recent economic bills that have been passed: https://www.reuters.com/market... [reuters.com]

      • by Anonymous Coward

        Apparently Kenya was unavailable and Paraguay pulled out at the last minute.

        PRICKS would be a so much better alliance.

    • Hi, One reason India isn't criticizing Russia (as far as I know) is that they are in need of that trade partner... they are not going to cut their own throat for what would essentially be an empty gesture (criticizing Russia). Please correct me if I am wrong, but, as far as I can tell, Russia doesn't really care if you criticize them. I mean, Putin probably keeps a little black book of people he wants to kill, but other than that...
      • The reason India isn't criticizing Russia is that they buy oil from Russia, and help their war machine, then relabel that oil and sell to the rest of the world, thus avoiding the embargo.

    • "You're either against X or you're against us!" is one of those unhinged George W. Bush conspiracy theories.

    • I disagree with much of what India's government does, BUT... the job of the government is to look out for the interests of it's people.

      Not speaking out against Russia is in India's best interests. So they don't.

      Being part of BRICS is in India's best interests. So they are.

      Forcing corporations to manufacture in India in order to sell to Indians is in India's best interests. So they do.

      It is one of the big failings of our government that we care too much about everyone else and not enough about our own peo

    • India is fed by Russian fertilizer. Even if the US was able step in, there is no chance in hell they could or would do it at prices India is able to pay. Where is India supposed to go without Russia? There is nowhere to go. How are they supposed to feed their 1.4B people? It's not like a government that cares much about their people is a common sight these days, but most any government still understands that there is exactly one thing that brings out the pitchforks, and that is food unaffordable to the peop

  • by 140Mandak262Jamuna ( 970587 ) on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:38AM (#63937015) Journal
    There are lots of sections of India that are openly hostile to India.

    There is this party Communist Party of India (Maoist). [ The parenthesis is part of its name, assigned by the election commission. To see the entire cladogram of all the kingdom, class, genera and species of CPIs look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] ]

    They openly pledge allegiance to China and sabotage everything to favor China. They create labor strife, it takes very few miscreants to savor the investment and sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about investments. The Foxconn factory near Chennai, India constantly gets in the news about labor stoppage, strikes, managers being gheraoed (ghero is a hindi origin word, meaning encriclement) in the factory.

    So, dont count China out. They have been sabotaging foreign direct investment going to India for several decades, and they are not going to stop now.

  • India is not China. If Google thinks it is going to get the same adherence to spec as it gets in China, they are in for a rude surprise.

  • For obvious reasons. But, another reason is it's probably to a degree cheaper labor. It has been done before. After WW2, America was the dominant labor market. But as the "middle class" grew, they demanded higher and higher wages. Businesses shifted to Japan. As they grew, businesses shifted to South Korea. As they grew, they shifted to China. As CHINA's government grew (there people can't), businesses are starting to shift to India.
    • You've hit the nail on the head. The cost of labor a fraction of both China and Vietnam, it neatly sidesteps the risk of sanctions or restrictions related to Taiwan, and it gives Google leverage in regard to government procurement in a very large market.

  • How about some jobs for your customers? Because we know you ain't sellin' no one grand phones in India.

    How about some return on all those handouts you're collecting? You're grossing what, $450 million a day? How about some jobs for the neighborhood?

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