BANGALORE: Apple being a U.S based company is now running on the work of Indians who have dominated the workforce. So it can be safely said that their products are made by the intelligence of Indian engineers. Indians are either directly involved by working for Apple or indirectly involved through various IT vendors. It also shows a significant rise in the number of Indian engineers that the company is depending on.

Back in 2001, the company has filed 1750 H-1B applications that stood for a period of ten years. In 2011 to 2013, the number grew significantly to 2800. "About one-third of Apple's engineering headcount consists of Indians who are either on H-1B or on Green Card," said Pareekh Jain, principal analyst at HfS Research, reports Times of India.

Apple has been outsourcing its work to five Indian IT companies, wherein four are big and one is small. They have recently shown their growing need of India for many reasons other than technical assistance. The Indian companies engage Apple with works that are related to Development and maintenance, business analysis and data warehousing, and also to integrate enterprise application, just to name a few.

"Apple's outsourcing strategy can be described in three words as 'outsourcing for growth'. The scope of outsourcing work has been enlarged in the last two or three years. From 2013, Apple has dedicated IT outsourcing vendor managers based out of Bangalore who are acting as the bridge between Apple's IT managers and India based IT vendors," said Jain, in reports from TOI.

Though back in 2006, Apple shut down the plans to open a technical support center, in recent years are showing that they cannot do without Indian talent workers and is trying to see how it can utilize other talents of the country.

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