50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge
Anyone who's read outsourced code can vouch for the similar QC problems. I work with a lot of great Indian software developers; none of them worked IN India itself; they tend to be the ones that are skilled enough to quickly realize they're able to command massively higher wages by leaving India.India, despite it's reputation as a software outsourcing location has never been able to produce exportable quality besides textiles. There are no cars or electronics, or chip fabs in this country.The author's description of the government being 'bureaucratic' is a nice way of saying corrupt, and certainly has no direct bearing on manufacturing yields. That's simply the way business is done in a largely domestic economy.