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  • Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions

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    avon b7 said:
    I'd like to say "cunning plan Baldrick!" but that would be offensive to poor Baldrick.

    So Trump is doing the walk. Walking things back! 

    He's making history for all the wrong reasons. 
    He never makes mistakes:
    He is turning simply around and then in his mind he is walking ahead again  ;-)
    TomPMRIAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • China calls Trump's trade war a joke, jumps tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%

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    libertyandfree said:
    DAalseth said:
    The US needs stuff from China more than China needs ANYTHING from the US.
    I expect there may be exemptions for Amazon, Apple and Walmart. But the hundreds of thousands of small stores, local stores, regional stores, that are the heart of the economy will be massacred. 

    As someone pointed out yesterday, this whole scrap is above all making China look like the reliable, stable, rational, trustworthy partner. That is going to be the most harmful thing coming out of this for the US.
    China needs money from the US to run their economy.  The US is by far their biggest customer whereas we are mostly consumers of their products - many of them not essential for daily life.  Yes, some small businesses rely on their cheap Chinese products but they will have to adapt in the short term - you don’t fold because some segments get hurt.  If the US stops buying the Chinese goods then China must sell them elsewhere, or shutter factories, which floods the market and crashes their prices.  Forgotten in all this is the massive theft by China on IP which was being reversed by the first Trump administration and then was unexplainable dropped by the Biden administration.  This needs to be corrected as well and this requires the Chinese govt to enforce.  
    Your thinking is right but it was actually true 5 a 10 years ago. The last years China did everything possible to diminish its dependence on America. They found new markets, they are trying to develop their own chips, to have their own standards different than America’s and in this way to be independent from US. And this is because they knew it will come crisis like this.
    Yes, I agree it should be done something to bring back production in America, but in opposite to China, there is no strategy on the side of America. And that creates chaos and uncertainty. It is to simplistic to belief that one person only, can solve the problems in America and the world with one signature only on an Executive Order. Such a man it is not born yet. 
    To find the right solution we need to bring the best independent brains in the nation together. 
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  • Trump vs. China: How the tariff war has hit Apple so far

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    Xed said:
    qwerty52 said:

    After all, it is tragic that this guy is doing his best to destroy one of the best company in the world, and it is a disaster that he even dosn't get it of what he is doing.

    Apple — as well as every other company that does business in the US and every American — is being hurt by these unqualified people in positions  because they were appointed by other unqualified people, but trust me when I say that Apple will be fine. They can weather this storm or if things get really bad (e.g. Germany circa 1940), Apple make their HQ a different city in a different country. I doubt the latter will come to that but I also didn’t expect for so many people to vote against their self interests and then contort themselves defending their decision with comments like, “I’d be proud to pay $5000 for an iPhone.”
    I hope you are right. I will be very very happy to see that this uncertain times for Apple are over. 
    radarthekat

  • Apple Watch arrived on buyers' wrists 10 years ago

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    Xed said:
    Is this considered the first Apple product released fully under Tim Cook's reign?

    I seem to recall a lot of disappointment when it first came out but I was an early adopter and never regretted the 4(?) different Watches I've owned. I look forward to what the future holds for this product, and hopefully that includes an oxygen saturation sensor (as I'm not upgrading again until that is reenabled) and satellite SOS.
    It’s the same reason I don’t upgrade my Apple Watch 6 series. I hope, we don’t have  to wait to long, before we see the oxygen saturation sensor back. 
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  • iPhone & Mac tariff reprieve only temporary

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    johnnybtrue said:
    Always twisting and turning, tariff changes on a daily basis. Who is actually in charge here???
    Yes, every tariff change is one before the last one. 😄
    And since Apple needs minimum 3 years to move only 10% of its total iPhone production to USA, I am afraid we are going to see a lot of twisting and turnings.

    Curious, what about the rest of the 90% iPhones after the 3 years are over?
    And what will happen if the US iPhone market is bigger than 10% of the total Apple production?
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