For the first time in the history of Apple's premium lineup, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are rolling off assembly lines in India and boarding chartered flights to global markets on the very day they go on sale — a quiet but consequential milestone in the long redistribution of the world's industrial geography. Driven by tariff pressures, geopolitical recalibration, and years of patient investment in India's electronics ecosystem, Apple has chosen to build its most profitable products far from the Chinese factories that once held a near-monopoly on that privilege. What Chennai's runways carry