> Read all the articles about the manufacturing ecosystem around Apple factories in China, the special bonded customs zones the regional governments set up, the

> Read all the articles about the manufacturing ecosystem around Apple factories in China, the special bonded customs zones the regional governments set up, the incentives, and workers they help recruit It is called SEZ or Special Economic Zones in India. Take some time and read up on it first before coming to wrong conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zone#India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zone#India. It has been around for multiple decades now. It isn't some new concept. All MNCs are situated in SEZs be it Google, Facebook, Microsoft or now Apple. Apple is the latest entrant and not first by any means. > India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market. This is a ridiculous assertion based on heresy with no evidence to back it up. Ease of doing business has increased drastically in the past few years. Multiple foreign companies have setup shop in India and some have been in India for decades now (Microsoft, Google etc). I can understand if you had compared India to a Western country but comparing it to China? Are you serious? If India was really such a "disaster" compared to China why did Google quit China and not India? Does that in itself not invalidate all your points? Also, coming to your "bribe" issue: do you mean to say "lobbying"? Because bribing is almost non-existent in India when it comes to operations of MNCs. You need to "lobby" for laws that favour MNCs. That has been the case for a long time in India now. But lobbying is also dying since Modi took over. You now have to come through the "Make in India" route. All foreign players are actually happy with it because there is zero red tape and all processes are fast-tracked. No need to lobby with anyone anymore and just focus on building and expanding your business. The issue for India was that it took this route too late (after many decades of extreme protectionism). I don't know where you get your information from but it is high time you change your source.