Brazil and India production are just to satisfy Brazil and India requirements (they will tariff heavily or not allowed to be sold otherwise).
I don't think Apple has enough final assembly in Thailand or Vietnam yet. US-bound product should still coming from China unless I'm missing something here. I just wouldn't put too much faith in to a one year old article with no followup and then assume that things have actually been accelerating without anyone noticing. The most I could find is:
> Brazil and India production are just to satisfy Brazil and India requirements
I agree that this was initially the case, but China's zero Covid policy factory shutdowns led Apple (and others) to start moving production out of China in earnest.
India, for example, is now producing current generation iPhones for export, not just makung the cheaper variants for sale inside India.
> One of the biggest shifts in manufacturing has been reducing dependence on China. The magnitude of that move was reinforced today with news that India-made iPhone exports were said to have jumped by a third to nearly $6 billion in value in the six months to September.
These are still future looking and it will take Apple awhile to get there. They won't be there next month, or even a year from now, so American consumers are going to have to eat the tariff for a year, probably two, while supply chains are reformed. This isn't going to happen overnight. All the other phone makers are going to be in the same boat, so the pricing power will be there to pass tariffs on to consumers (and the few that can avoid them will take the extra profit like American steel companies are now).
They started shifting production out of China several years ago.
For instance this 2023 news item.
> Apple is continuing to reduce its reliance on China for production of its most popular products, moving to India and Thailand for key manufacturing.
https://www.channelnews.com.au/apple-moves-iphone-macbook-pr...
Things have only accelerated since.