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  • Apple donating 9M face masks to US healthcare facilities amid coronavirus outbreak

    the monkthe monk
    kent909 said:
    Where have these masks been for the last month? Why are they just being donated now? Why does Apple have 9m?
    Cook said Apple was sourcing suppliers for the health supplies and then donating them. It could’ve been a mix of storage and buying them from suppliers. Don’t assume you know the whole story. 

    Cook is the king of the supply chain and he can find anything.
    GeorgeBMacmike1Taintmasterrandominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • Apple has multiple options to lower potential import tariff impact

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    sacto joe said:
    I'm a bit concerned with the approach Ms. Huberty proposes, since it would mean reducing manufacturing in China, which will not sit well with the Chinese. An alternative would be for the Chinese to agree to "eat" some of the tariff as a way to keep Apple manufacturing in China. As a short term measure, it could help to keep those jobs in China. At the very least, I'd hope Mr. Cook is open to that kind of deal.

    More than likely there would be some combination of all possibilities which, on net, would see resultantly little change in the US consumer price tag.
    Fortunately, not all sales are to the United States. Remember Apple Inc. is an international brand. They can still can ship Chinese components and phones throughout China, Europe and rest of Asia. 

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/382175/quarterly-revenue-of-apple-by-geograhical-region/

    There’s a lot that Apple can do to play around in their complicated supply chain so no one country gets seriously hurt. Also, Foxconn is having problems filling staff as many Chinese hate manufacturing jobs and are refusing to apply, so Foxconn is already replacing these unfilled positions with robots.

    stevenoz

  • Former Apple event venue Flint Center is closing

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    AppleExposed said:
    the monk said:
    AppleExposed said:
    iOS_Guy80 said:
    Could be an Apple Museum.
    Great idea! I hope Apple steps in and saves it. Beats student housing.
     Considering the high(est) cost of living in Silicon Valley, an Apple museum is more important than student housing? Ugh.

    Yes.
    Puke.
    AppleExposed

  • Former Apple event venue Flint Center is closing

    the monkthe monk
    AppleExposed said:
    iOS_Guy80 said:
    Could be an Apple Museum.
    Great idea! I hope Apple steps in and saves it. Beats student housing.
     Considering the high(est) cost of living in Silicon Valley, an Apple museum is more important than student housing? Ugh.
    AppleExposed

  • B&H Payboo Card to refund sales tax on all orders [u]

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    22july2013 said:
    apple ][ said:
    US citizens are not 5% of AI's readership, they are the vast majority I'm pretty sure. :#
    Maybe a mod can step in and tell us what the percentage is, if they feel like sharing such information?
    Much of the world is simply irrelevant. That's just how things are.
    It would be fabulous if AI could tell us what percent of their readership is US-based. You think it's the "vast majority"? Does that mean over 75%? I would be very surprised if that was true. Maybe the actual number is an AI trade secret. However if they treat me as "simply irrelevant" I might go elsewhere for my news. I don't really expect them to give us an exact number but an approximate value would be very appreciated. Eg, "US and non-US readers are roughly equal in number" or "US readers outnumber non-US readers by a modest amount" or something like that would be very helpful.
    There’s really no secret to country readership. This is a common metric. Ranking sites give limited information to free users. Alexa, similarweb, etc. similarweb says over 50 percent of desktop users of AI are from U.S. other countries in smaller percentages.
    ronn