{"id":1040524,"date":"2026-10-03T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040524"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:23:21","slug":"smartphone-export-boom-has-an-apple-sized-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/smartphone-export-boom-has-an-apple-sized-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone export boom has an Apple-sized catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years of the government\u2019s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme have certainly transformed the country into a major smartphone export base, but almost 87% of the increase in smartphone exports during the period has come from Apple. <\/p>\n<p>Smartphone exports surged from $5.5 billion in FY22 to $29.36 billion in FY26, but the non-Apple portion rose only 74%, from about $4.2 billion to $7.4 billion. Apple\u2019s iPhone exports, in contrast, jumped nearly 17-fold from about $1.25 billion to around $22 billion, making the company the overwhelming driver of the export surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years of the government\u2019s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme have certainly transformed the country into a major smartphone export base, but almost 87% of the increase in smartphone exports during the period has come from Apple. Smartphone exports surged from $5.5 billion in FY22 to $29.36 billion in FY26, but the non-Apple portion rose only 74%, from about $4.2 billion to $7.4 billion. Apple\u2019s iPhone exports, in contrast, jumped nearly 17-fold from about $1.25 billion to around $22 billion, making the company the overwhelming driver of the export surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040544,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040524\/revisions\/1040544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}