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  • Trump's 25% smartphone tariff starts just in time for the iPhone 17

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    environmentalidiot said:
    So let me see... liberals want to tax corporations more, but they are worried about a tariff. Why?

    Either way you are going to pay more. The tariff is a tax that goes into the the US coffers, and sure, the corporations are going raise the prices of goods because of the tariff. However, if you just add taxes on the corporations like the liberals want to, do you really think they won't pass the cost of those taxes on to the consumer? Of course they are.

    The nice part about tariffs is that I can choose which company I want to purchase from and potentially avoid the tariff tax. If taxes are levied on the companies by our own tax system, I have to pay the increased tax to all the corporations and don't get to exercise my choice in purchasing. I just get the added bonus of inflation on my purchases.

    Your whole post is simpleton logic.
    The problem isn’t the tax or the tariff. It’s what accompanies the said tax or tariff.
    No serious person, economist or politician is going to say “raise taxes on smartphone companies by 25%”. End of story.
    This is what “your president” did. “Tariffs on everyone!” Make it so. 

    Your last paragraph is even weirder.
    Show me where in an Apple store I can choose an iPhone “made in China”, “made in India”, “made in Brazil”, “made in USA”. 
    In fact show me any store where they have sections of, say Adidas runners “made in Indonesia”, “made in Germany”,… 
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  • New firmware available for AirPods Max with USB-C port

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    I just think that this firmware upgrade must have something to do with the USB-C connector.
    If it's anything else like advanced codecs or whatever, then it's a real "d!ckish" move by Apple since, at least to my knowledge, the two versions are identical, hardware-wise.
    Other than the connector of course.  
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  • President Trump talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook after China tariff reduction

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    igorsky said:
    Tim Cook is just waiting out a lame duck President, as is pretty much every other business leader who is currently paying this man lip service.
    Three years is a long time to wait.
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  • Tim Cook praises Trump in US tech titan meeting

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    mikethemartian said:
    Maybe Tim can have Trump design the next iPhone Pro.
    ….or Elon.  It would have sharp edges to injure you if you hold it wrong, and be held together with glue.
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  • Tim Cook praises Trump in US tech titan meeting

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    mrstep said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    Seems like a smart man’s genuine appreciation of another smart man. 

    Good to see. 

    Cook is they’re to look ahead and can see the potential blessing of current moves down the road  
    We had 50 years of US leadership selling out our manufacturing base to a Communist regime and it seems most people are only angry at President Trump for trying to change that course.  The CCP is literally fascist. 🤷‍♂️ 
    That is why those fugly red MAGA hats are made in……Oh never mind.
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