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  • It's still cheaper to import iPhones with 25% tariffs, than assemble in the US

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    22july2013 said:
    Given a choice between two identical products (like iPhones, forks, or cashew nuts) where one says "Made in X," where X is a dictatorship, and the other says "Made in Y," where Y is a democracy, I would pay for the one made in Y, even if it's at a much higher price. I realize not many people care about human rights or the environment like I do. I haven't met a single person who shares my values and would buy the higher priced item.
     
    Trump, like China, is definitely not interested in human rights nor democracy. 
     
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  • Trump's 25% smartphone tariff starts just in time for the iPhone 17

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

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


     

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  • Tantalizing details of Jony Ive's AI device leak after OpenAI meeting

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    Apple can do the same, really with Home. 

    Just create a device with sensors and let new HomePod do the AI and help you. 
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  • Your iCloud password could be newly exposed from a giant password leak

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    I don't get it - passwords should ALWAYS be hashed and salted. How can passwords be exposed? Are they still using plaintext? Surely, it cannot be with Meta, Apple, Google, they already know never to hold passwords in plaintext. 

    You cannot use hashed passwords to authenticate. 


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  • Trump has a problem with Tim Cook, because Foxconn is building factories in India

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    jesusfreak said:
    These comments, "it is impossible", are frankly BS and why we are facing the problems we are facing now.

    The truth will end up somewhere in the middle.  Many companies CAN do more here in the US.  As Americans we have 

    become addicted to cheap labor at our own long term expense.  We can do MORE in the USA.  Maybe some things 

    don't make sense, but we have to realize that many of the "cheap" products we are buying, are part of why our national

    debt is getting cranked up.  We are paying, whether we see it out the cashier or not.   We are also paying a lot for many 

    middle men in Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Education and more.  There are a lot of unproductive people out there 

    leaching off the American taxpayer.   If I have to pay $500 more for an iPhone and it starts to bring down our debt, so

    be it.    Bash Trump all you want.  He's the only President in recent history to have the balls to face these facts and at 

    least TRY to do something about the problems.  It takes a BIG PUSHER to move BIG BUREAUCRACIES and the status

    quo.  The middle men will not give up their loot easily.  

    Unproductive people? Who are they? 

    "if I have to pay $500 more..." does not matter. It's not about you and your wishful thinking.  

    And no, Trump doesn't know what he's talking about.  


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