Maybe Apple could decontent the versions of their products sold in the United States and continue business as usual everywhere else. Also, their profit margin is such that a bit of decontenting combined with a hit to those margins in the US market might just do the trick. Whatever taxes the US government collects off of Apple, it will be less considering those lower profit margins. So some of that fabulous tariff income Trump and the Gang are counting on will be eaten away by that development. In addition, if inflation is one of the side effects of waging a tariff war, buying power will be diminished. That also means less money in government coffers. Trump simplifies enormously and in terms of gaining votes, that's effective. Yet if you oversimplify that which is exceedingly complex when governing, bad things happen. When running for office, Trump pushed the notion that if he were elected, life would go back to where it was pre-COVID. He has always claimed to love tariffs but he didn't run on the notion of using them to thoroughly remake the global economy and expecting initial pain in the process. He didn't because clearly not enough voters would have endorsed that approach. Folks just wanted it to go back to where it was in the earlier years of Trump's first term. He suggested this is what they'd get. Now he's pulled off something of a bait and switch. I suspect he has such faith in his ability to sell voters on whatever he wants to do, that he thinks they will stick with him. Some will but many will not. They've been had and some of them will clue in, especially, when there is direct impact on their lives. If what Trump has in mind is something akin to, impose tariffs, production returns to the US, badda bing, badda boom, this is going to be an epic fail. Is he capable of such massive mismanagement? Absolutely. He has the bankruptcies and mismanaged projects in his past to suggest he could blow it. He's not Midas even though some foolishly imagine him to be. He's brilliant at marketing himself. That doesn't mean he's brilliant at pulling off the major restructuring he apparently has embarked on. Nor was he elected with a clear mandate to embark on such a path. He would have had to run on doing that and he definitely did not. In any case, Apple is better positioned to manage this mess than some others like, for instance, the auto industry. The biggest issue for Apple will be making money during a recession which we surely are headed for.
Guess Tim Cook needs to pay Trump more money to get on the exception list. I mean, the US is the most corrupt nation in the world, why not go full in?
Why when most of product value is not the physical goods that are effected?
They can add $100 to base prices maybe adjust the storage tiers down a bit and make more profit to offset sales decline to help weather the Trump-recession.
It will take between 7 - 15 years to see factories Stateside.
I hate to break it to you, but companies in a recession layoff workers. They consolidate. They're not expanding and they're not building new plants and supply chains.
So that whole "strengthen the economy" and "make America wealthy" BS?
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They can add $100 to base prices maybe adjust the storage tiers down a bit and make more profit to offset sales decline to help weather the Trump-recession.