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I don’t live in the US. If Apple wants to spread the tariff costs to all other non-US countries, I’ll skip any Apple purchases for at least the next 4 years until the orange orangutang is gone

What I think Apple should do is create a 3D game development platform to compete with Unreal. It should easily work with all computer, tablet and phone OS's using standardized graphic libraries that work with everything. It should be capable of scaling for free-roam multi-player worlds and outer space games down to first person shooters and side shooters using services equivalent to Amazon Lumberyard which allows dynamic scaling of back-end servers for massive games. It should also plug-into Final Cut Pro to allow easy support for movies and volume stages for film production. Support it like crazy and make it very affordable. First it will bring games to the Apple ecosystem (especially Mac) because it should work for all platforms and it will hurt Epic where it counts (in their Unreal engine revenue). It will open up an entirely new revenue stream with the film industry and might push more film studios towards FCP.

We’ll see if Apple goes forward with their announced $500B investment to build data centres. Big corps are shutting their investment wallets due to all the volatility caused by the orange orangutang. 

IanS said:

As a Canadian, I am struggling with the demission to buy a new Mac. I am not buying anything in the USA right now and also avoiding products with American parent companies. 

As another Canadian, I would suggest do your best to avoid American products. You won't be able to do 100% but when you have choice, buy Canadian or from another country that respects our trade agreements. The "Maple Scan" app in the App Store is an excellent app that lets you know if a product is:

“ The previous cheapest Apple Intelligence option consumers could take was the iPad mini at $499.”