Four months since Indonesia banned sales of the iPhone 16 and demanded increasing investment from Apple, it is reported that the company is talking to its suppliers about building the iPhone locally.
Prior to the ban, Apple was predicted to sell 2.9 million iPhones in Indonesia in 2024, meaning it reaches only around 2% of buyers in the country.
In an effort to get both more buyers and more developers on board with the Apple Vision Pro, Apple is launching a new visionOS workshop and appears to be preparing to allow third-parties to sell the headset.
After that and a $100 million offer were rejected, Apple reportedly proposed a $1 billion investment — which Indonesia accepted, yet also said was not enough.
Apple will presumably make it a condition of committing to such manufacturing that the iPhone 16 ban be lifted immediately.
