Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were among the companies behind a landmark liberalization of labor laws in the Indian state of Karnataka last month, according to three people familiar with the matter. ”The person said that India, which this year is due to overtake China as the world’s most populous country, was a promising market that Foxconn could no longer ignore but that big gaps remained in the investment environment between India and China. Apple also has its iPhones assembled in India at plants operated by rival Taiwanese contract manufacturers Pegatron and Wistron