StationGrey

When is this fat imbecile going to be stopped? He's trying to single-handedly destroy the US and its businesses, while making as many people as possible suffer, just to appease his inner pschyopath.

Whether his rationale is mental illness, utter stupidity and ignorance, or malevolence, has stopped being relevant. He needs to be stopped asap, and his issues can be addressed later.

blastdoor said:

fred1 said:

The reasons given that prevent iPhones from being made in the US - “there is not the required skilled labor, there is not a supply of the rare minerals needed, and there are no facilities.” - can be dealt with, but would take years to implement. It’s not impossible, but the overnight change the Orange Man wants can’t happen.  Does he really not understand this? 

Agreed. Stating that’s it’s physically impossible to manufacture iPhones in the US is over the top absurd and ultimately benefits Trump because it makes him look relatively less dumb than he would otherwise look.

of course it’s possible. It would just be more expensive to do that than pay the tariff, especially given that the tariff might not be there by the time the US supply chain is built.

Of course it's not physically impossible. But it's practically and financially impossible, and that amounts to much the same thing in business.

Jim_MAY said:

The Trump Administration will advance an appeal to the Supreme Court. Congress gave tariff powers to the Presidents long ago.

The president has some tariff powers in certain situations. 

AppleZulu said:

 What exactly is such a policy supposed to be accomplishing? 

It makes ol' mushroom dick feel like a REAL MAN. Grrrrrr...

Well, that and the money he makes shorting AAPL then changing his mind of course. The US is run by a man whose only interest is bleeding it dry for his own profit. And Americans voted for this?

With incompetent narcissistic billionaires in charge, everyone suffers apart from them.

Who could possibly have foreseen that happening?

Cool_Bananas said:

Other countries have tariffs on us, but we don't have any on them..

Yes, that is the lie you've been fed. In reality, all countries have tariffs, including the US. And the US's have usually been much higher than other country's. Even before last week, the weighted average tariffs that the US imposed on China were 3.7 TIMES what China charged. And for the UK is was a mere 2.5 TIMES. So anyone that tells you that the US didn't charge them, or that they charged less, or that anyone other than the US was being 'unfair' was either grossly misinformed or, in almost every case, lying through their teeth. Beware of bright orange compulsive liars pretending not to lie to you.

jmoore5196 said:

Extortion?  Backtracking?  Did no one learn anything from January 6?  

Remember Richard Nixon's comment to David Frost:  If the President does it, it's not illegal.

Nixon's party of law and order, fiscal responsibility and small government has been completely co-opted by a conman.  Voters have put this party in charge of the Executive and Legislative branches, and the fact that most members of the judiciary hew toward this party's views means the President can do whatever he wants.

Indeed. The question my friends and I in the UK ask, is at what point is the US technically a dictatorship? 

9secondkox2 said:

netrox said:

A 25% tariff is actually the tariff rate since 2019 imposed by Trump. 

And you wonder why everything costs so much since then???? 

Lol. iPhone pro max was 1099 in 2019. 1199 in 2024 under Biden. 

Gas was 4.13in California state average in 2019. 4.87 in 2024. 

The ford mustang GT was 35335 in 2019. 42495 in 2024. 

Eggs were 1.46 a dozen. In 2024 that went to 4.15 under Biden. 

Trump just got here. 

Let him fight the hood fight to get things back on track. Apple building st home is s good thing. Free and fair trade is s good thing. The USA has been tariffed to desth. It’s about time America recoups some of that until those same countries drop their tarriffs. Any American company building up hostile nations by giving them huge investments and building their economies instead of their homeland should be ashamed. 

This actually makes more sense before running it through a translator than when it becomes legible. It makes several points and assumptions, all of which are wrong.

timpetus said:

Professional photographer here, chiming in to say StationGrey is correct. 

Thanks for the confirmation and approval of my explanation!


(Also a profesional photographer btw)

apple4thewin said:

To be honest not many people (at least the people i know) use any form of carplay. Only recent cars have came around to it and it will probably take another 5 years for it to go mainstream when people finally upgrade their cars

I don't think you can accurately represent 'many people'.

CarPlay has been around since 2014, that's 9 years! No, not everyone has a new car, or even one less than 9 years old, but many millions of people do. I think it's probably mainstream by now.