dominikhoffmann

rob53 said:

If the chip doesn't include all operational capabilities then it should be considered defective and either disposed of or sold for no more than half its fully functional cost. If someone tells me a fully functional A18 SoC only costs $100 why does the rest of the iPhone cost so much? Dropping the cost of the binned SoC in half to $50 is chump change. Apple needs to justify its cost based on materials especially since the iPhone is no longer a unique device. Most of the iPhone is either the same as the previous version, very close, or was easy (not expensive) to upgrade. Someone is reaping the benefits of every new Apple device.

That’s not how product pricing works. The price of a product is based on what the market will bear. That’s in light of the cost of a viable competitor product, information about the distribution in the population of various levels of disposable income, etc. If that determination allows for a sufficiently high profit margin, the price is set that way. If the components’ piece prices come down in the course of the product life cycle, the savings will be passed on to the consumer only, if the product’s seller finds that it will help the overall bottom line.

Tariffs are only one factor in the multi-variate input to producer pricing. Importers may adjust prices and their suppliers, too. Disbursements of ERS income to citizens via tax cuts will allow consumers to more easily absorb higher pricing. In other words a x% import tariff may not necessarily lead to a consumer price multiplier of (1 + x / 100). We will just have to wait and see how it plays out.

At this point the priority is strengthening the domestic manufacturing base. This is important to the U.S. workforce, as well as strategically. In the case of a conflict with China, what use will cheap aspirin be, if it has led to there not being any functional chemical plants in the U.S., anymore, that make other important medications?

Let’s not bitch about a 10% tariff, when the last four years brought us > 25% inflation on groceries, which make for a much larger proportion of a family’s budget than an iPhone or two a year. For the one there are very well-reasoned economic policy drivers, for the other there were several very boneheaded and potentially intentionally destructive ones.

Did it occur to her that to most homeless people anyone owning an iPhone is “rich scum?”

Xed said:

I knew they had to be getting data from the inside if they're stealing packages like this.z

That shows that a Ring doorbell is not a sufficient deterrent. I don’t even know, whether it really will aid law enforcement in identifying the thief. The resolution and frame rate are too slow, and the car is too far away to identify the license plate.

Having such deliveries made to your place of work, if that’s feasible, is the better solution. That will not work for everyone, of course, but has for me throughout my career.

I hope my bid will win. I have a stack of Apple II floppy disks I have been wanting to turn into disk images for Basilisk for years! I now see a path forward.