Government officials from India’s Karnataka state announced that they have accepted a proposal from Apple to begin assembling iPhones in the country for the first time. Several media reports indicated that iPhones would be assembled in or near Bengaluru, a city considered the center of India’s tech and startup sectors.
Priyank Kharge, an IT minister for Karnataka, told Reuters that he believed Apple would “tentatively begin manufacturing iPhones in the state by the end of April or beginning of May.”
