When due to the rumors surrounding the next iPhone launch, many are the users who are already trying to reach agreements with their friends to get rid of their iPhone 7 while the inhabitants of Indonesia can already acquire it for a couple of days. It is not that the typical Apple supply problems were to blame, but that it was not until the guys from Cupertino have officially confirmed the upcoming opening of the first of the three R&D centers that will open in the country, Authorities have not given Apple permission to sell the company's latest model.
And many will show up. What does speed have to do with bacon? In this case and as in India, some Asian countries require certain requirements from large companies to be able to sell their products, something that many countries should apply. India and Indonesia oblige Apple that 30% of the products it sells in its own stores must be manufactured in the country, something that is currently impossible, but as in Indonesia, the lack of products manufactured in the country is It can be supplied by making large investments in R&D centers in the country. And that is what Apple has done to be able to sell not only the iPhone 7 but the next devices that it launches on the market.
Apple has had to make an investment of 44 million dollars to open three R&D centers in the country, the first of them will do it in Tangerang next quarter. Indonesia is another of the emerging countries where Apple wants to expand, thanks to the 260 million inhabitants, offering a very high growth potential, although India takes most of the investment, since the 1.200 billion inhabitants can convert to the country in the main economic engine of the company, once China has ceased to be.