Although with fewer Turkish lira to the dollar I'd imagine Apple's prices in Istanbul are going up.
No. Apple's pricing policy is not tied to daily currency fluctuations. Apple has recently raised prices in Turkey in July, another price hike does not seem immediate, just prior to new products announcement season.
Seems more symbolic than an actual remedy. If you listen to the pundits, 500,000,000 Android phones are activated worldwide for every iPhone anyway, so what would this boycott achieve?
Economic boom, lol. Imaginary numbers while wages are down, jobs are vanishing, our schools are war zones and real people are suffering on the street. If Turkey is a disaster waiting to happen, it's only because they are a few steps further down the same road we are on.
Wages are down? Really? Everywhere I go it says they are hiring. The economy grew quite a bit better for the last two years. UNemployment is really low. The fact that schools are war zones is a responsibility of those who vote for local politicians and determine, what is done in those schools. In any free country there will be people on streets that suffer, if that was their choice. You CANT do anything about it for precicely that reason alone.
Wages are down buddy when inflation adjusted and not including the top 10%; you're feels has nothing to do with it. As for the rest, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
If you are an engineer, lawyer or doctor, yeah they're doing great and so fracking what.
blah blah blah blah blah blah.
That pretty much sums up your whole post.
Why did you chose to cut off the top 10%? Why not cut at 5% or 34.5%? Does it destroy your narrative about failing wages, when you include top 10% earners? You do realize that 10% earners contribute roughly 71% of all income tax money for the budget, right? So, why did you exclude them?
" you're feels has nothing to do with it" Neither have yours. Check statistics on economics. The fact that low wage low 30% earners means jack shit for the economy, primarily, because they pay almost no taxes and in fact, they receive money from the taxpayers, instead of being "taxpayers" themselves . So, if they earn less it does not affect the economy at all. What does affect the economy a lot is how the top 30% are doing, as they pay ( if memory serves well) about 90% of all income tax in the US. And top 50% percent, who pay 97% of all income tax. That is a fact, and not your/my feelings. In other words, your stupid "If you are an engineer, lawyer or doctor, yeah they're doing great and so fracking what." indicates that you have no idea how the economy works and who (those engineers and doctors) pays for it....and hence your barely intelligible rant..
The US president sure wants the US to make its own steel again, and seems willing to take the international heat to make it happen. Not just from Turkey but Canada and Europe as well.
I think its short-sighted of Turkey to block US tech imports, because they need all the tech they can get in that part of the world, to help keep up.
This is not a blockade on US tech imports, just a boycott call. Apple stores are open in Turkey and as crowded as always.
Wages are down? Really? Everywhere I go it says they are hiring. The economy grew quite a bit better for the last two years. UNemployment is really low.
Anton, please. Don’t fall for bubbles and false normalcy. Never mind outright lies. We’re a few years away from the Second Great Depression. When the market corrects, it will correct to roughly 60% of what it is today. If it was allowed to correct fully (which it won’t be without mass executions), it would correct to just above 30%, BUT the purchasing power of the dollar would be 50x greater.
...if he pulls Turkey out of NATO we will be in a world of hurt as Turkey is crucial to our ability to retain what little influence we have these days in the Middle East.
When Assad takes his country back and Turkish forces are staring down the barrels of Syrians guns after being pushed back to their OWN border, something tells me it won’t just be political.
And that’s assuming Turkey lasts that long, anyway.
bunch of sad wannabe bullies (or wannabes) spreading their nonsense ... Is Internet people really this dumb? "Eveyone is entitled to have their opinion but no one is entitled to have their own facts." from a lesson on Decision Theory, Harvard Business School
* Parts of F-35 are made by Turkey, hence the Turkish flag on the side. (google it) * Turkish people love Apple and its products. So i know it looks silly but childlishly they say: "you started it!" * Turkey has one of the biggest armies in the world. US of A has the biggest. * Turkey was Ottoman Empire for 600 years. * For Muslim Turks (as for all the true Jews and Christians) this world is nothing but a field to sow the good deeds. Remember what Yeshua (iesus), Moshe (Moses) and Mohammad thought. * Check the history of the collapsed nations. * "must read: Amy Chua and Jared Diamond". * So, let US not be cocky.
Economic boom, lol. Imaginary numbers while wages are down, jobs are vanishing, our schools are war zones and real people are suffering on the street. If Turkey is a disaster waiting to happen, it's only because they are a few steps further down the same road we are on.
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That boycott call will have no effect in Turkey.
If you listen to the pundits, 500,000,000 Android phones are activated worldwide for every iPhone anyway, so what would this boycott achieve?
Why did you chose to cut off the top 10%? Why not cut at 5% or 34.5%? Does it destroy your narrative about failing wages, when you include top 10% earners? You do realize that 10% earners contribute roughly 71% of all income tax money for the budget, right? So, why did you exclude them?
" you're feels has nothing to do with it"
Neither have yours. Check statistics on economics. The fact that low wage low 30% earners means jack shit for the economy, primarily, because they pay almost no taxes and in fact, they receive money from the taxpayers, instead of being "taxpayers" themselves . So, if they earn less it does not affect the economy at all.
What does affect the economy a lot is how the top 30% are doing, as they pay ( if memory serves well) about 90% of all income tax in the US. And top 50% percent, who pay 97% of all income tax.
That is a fact, and not your/my feelings.
In other words, your stupid "If you are an engineer, lawyer or doctor, yeah they're doing great and so fracking what." indicates that you have no idea how the economy works and who (those engineers and doctors) pays for it....and hence your barely intelligible rant..
"Eveyone is entitled to have their opinion but no one is entitled to have their own facts."
from a lesson on Decision Theory, Harvard Business School
* Parts of F-35 are made by Turkey, hence the Turkish flag on the side. (google it)
* Turkish people love Apple and its products. So i know it looks silly but childlishly they say: "you started it!"
* Turkey has one of the biggest armies in the world. US of A has the biggest.
* Turkey was Ottoman Empire for 600 years.
* For Muslim Turks (as for all the true Jews and Christians) this world is nothing but a field to sow the good deeds. Remember what Yeshua (iesus), Moshe (Moses) and Mohammad thought.
* Check the history of the collapsed nations.
* "must read: Amy Chua and Jared Diamond".
* So, let US not be cocky.
Thank you for reading.
Caleb