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anonymouse said:

mikethemartian said:

anonymouse said:

So, did Bezos finally grow a pair or will he step in and scuttle this plan? If he's grown a pair, maybe he'll decide it's time to restore WAPO to being an actually newspaper. If not, he should sell it.

It's funny and disgusting at the same time that the "White House" considers it a "hostile and political" act to tell the American public the truth about Trump's tariffs.

Bezos will cave.

A safe, and correct, prediction it seems. How did such a weenie ever build a company like Amazon?

dewme said:

anonymouse said:

Unfortunately, all the robot arms — as well as legs, heads and torsos — will be subject to tariffs.

You are pretty much correct. None of the top 10 industrial robot manufacturers are based in the United States. Some of them may have US subsidiaries but Germany, Switzerland, and Japan currently dominate the market. Fortunately, the US is stronger in the industrial automation and process control markets with three US based companies in the top 10.

I have heard the arguments that automation will increase the number of higher paying jobs versus factory worker jobs. I have seen this to be true over the course of my career. However, it’s never going to be a one for one replacement, not even close. 

The other effect I have also seen play out personally is that the demand for the workers needed to fill the far from 1:1 replacement jobs have an under supply of US based candidates. The first reaction to this deficit involves hiring more non-US based workers. The second thing that happens is companies who jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon to fill deficits realize that they can also outsource a chunk of their US based workers with outsourced workers.

I suppose the third step is to replace both US based and non-US based workers with automation. I’m not sure how long it will take to go all-in on step three. At some point the huge population of displaced and replaced workers and politicians will likely take action to prevent manufacturing from ending up where it would obviously go if driven by for-profit companies and technologists alone. 

nubus said:

shrave10 said:

Apple has very little market share in both smartphones and notebooks in India.  How can they be anticompetitive?  Androids and PC's can reach the end user easily and are the vast majority in their respective categories. 

This isn't about Apple being anti-competitive in India. And the calculation by the professor is terrible. People ordered food way before any smartphone. Apple didn't create catering or transportation. Both industries moved from orders on phone, web, and now apps. People answering calls lost their jobs while developers got hired. Did that really create jobs?

The real problem to Apple is India looking at regulation from outside and India being good at regulations. India followed EU on USB-C. Imagine if India would allow another App Store to give Indian developers a bigger cut. Other countries would then say "we should do as India". This is the same as when Big Tobacco tried to avoid legislation. It should change how we look at Apple.

Monkey see monkey do. India sees other countries jumping on the money/grafting bandwagon and thinks why shouldn’t they? The EU and the Justice Department often do a disservice to their native companies, especially when they don’t clearly think through the problems they’re trying to solve using antitrust laws, to over come some market shortages in infrastructure, some perceived competitive disadvantages or just simply to add on some type of new tax or fine. Bureaucrats around the world seem to have one thing in common: tunnel vision.

mikethemartian said:

anonymouse said:

So, did Bezos finally grow a pair or will he step in and scuttle this plan? If he's grown a pair, maybe he'll decide it's time to restore WAPO to being an actually newspaper. If not, he should sell it.

It's funny and disgusting at the same time that the "White House" considers it a "hostile and political" act to tell the American public the truth about Trump's tariffs.

Bezos will cave.

mikethemartian said:

That million dollars was just a token. To get exemptions Cook had to offer Trump more than that.