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Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook
As I said a long time ago, intelligent people are in charge snd apple will be ok. The president will have a way to navigate Apple through some difficult decidd add jobs. And it has come to pass.Cook was wise to open the door of discussion dnd thr president has been wise in response.I know it’s popular in this particular online space to detract from the president no matter what he does, but the fact is tarriffs are necessary -yet it’s sldd add o necessary to protect Americans and American companies. The idea is to put the pressure on other countries, particularly China - and not on American companies.It’s not changing mindset. It’s continuing forward motion, msnuevering as needed. That’s only good stuff snd Apple is the better for it. As this year marks time for my iPhone upgrade and early next is my next Mac purchase, I am a pretty happy potential customer right about now.
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Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching
Spared no expense on a minimal market, niche headset. Then underinvested in mass market Siri, which has already been an Achilles heel.For such a brilliant company, they make some weird decisions sometimes.
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Steve Jobs didn't tolerate yes-men, understood his influence at Pixar
Wise man.He understood success was the goal. He measured success by quality. It had to be the best.And if it was the best, all the goals of business would automatically be met and accessed.The man had strong vision. Fought tooth and nail for it. And it paid off. -
China calls Trump's trade war a joke, jumps tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%
Facts.jfabula1 said:We been the dumping ground of Made in China, and who’s to be blame??? American consumers and the greedy corporations are just reacting. We get what we planted so get over it. We can’t continue this way or we don’t have America to be called our country.Apple is no exception, I my self will have to tighten my belt if it has to come that way…..so far I don’t see any Apple price increases,
all I’ve heard are fear mongering.
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China calls Trump's trade war a joke, jumps tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%
gwydion said:
Oh, you believe that 90 countries are negotiating, how adorablelibertyandfree said:
You obviously do not know how these negotiations work. The so called blink has 90 countries negotiating and if that’s a blink then blink away. The whole world knows China is the bully when it comes to trade and fairness, did you somehow miss this?avon b7 said:
What happened with agriculture in his last term? China quickly pivoted away to Brazil. Lobsters from Maine? China went to Canada.libertyandfree said:
China needs money from the US to run their economy. The US is by far their biggest customer whereas we are mostly consumers of their products - many of them not essential for daily life. Yes, some small businesses rely on their cheap Chinese products but they will have to adapt in the short term - you don’t fold because some segments get hurt. If the US stops buying the Chinese goods then China must sell them elsewhere, or shutter factories, which floods the market and crashes their prices. Forgotten in all this is the massive theft by China on IP which was being reversed by the first Trump administration and then was unexplainable dropped by the Biden administration. This needs to be corrected as well and this requires the Chinese govt to enforce.DAalseth said:The US needs stuff from China more than China needs ANYTHING from the US.
I expect there may be exemptions for Amazon, Apple and Walmart. But the hundreds of thousands of small stores, local stores, regional stores, that are the heart of the economy will be massacred.
As someone pointed out yesterday, this whole scrap is above all making China look like the reliable, stable, rational, trustworthy partner. That is going to be the most harmful thing coming out of this for the US.
China is in a situation - provoked by the US - where mutual trade is severely impacted.
They won't go crawling to Trump and they've made that very clear.
They will continue to get rid of US debt but with a common sense approach. They will tighten restrictions on critical minerals/rare earths. They could even switch away from Boeing to Airbus as a symbolic move. They will strengthen BRICS+ deals as well as tempt the EU.
At the end of the day it is Trump who started everything and it is Trump who will have to fix it.
He blinked first with the 90 day pause. Now he will have to blink again.
I don’t know where you get “90” from.m his post. But some have publicly stated so and some have made the trip to meet the president in person to cut a deal. You’ve got China, tje eu, and Canada adding even more tariffs onto their already present tariffs. These three have already been mentioned by the president as problems before the tariffs were implemented. So no surprise there.gwydion said:
Oh, you believe that 90 countries are negotiating, how adorablelibertyandfree said:
You obviously do not know how these negotiations work. The so called blink has 90 countries negotiating and if that’s a blink then blink away. The whole world knows China is the bully when it comes to trade and fairness, did you somehow miss this?avon b7 said:
What happened with agriculture in his last term? China quickly pivoted away to Brazil. Lobsters from Maine? China went to Canada.libertyandfree said:
China needs money from the US to run their economy. The US is by far their biggest customer whereas we are mostly consumers of their products - many of them not essential for daily life. Yes, some small businesses rely on their cheap Chinese products but they will have to adapt in the short term - you don’t fold because some segments get hurt. If the US stops buying the Chinese goods then China must sell them elsewhere, or shutter factories, which floods the market and crashes their prices. Forgotten in all this is the massive theft by China on IP which was being reversed by the first Trump administration and then was unexplainable dropped by the Biden administration. This needs to be corrected as well and this requires the Chinese govt to enforce.DAalseth said:The US needs stuff from China more than China needs ANYTHING from the US.
I expect there may be exemptions for Amazon, Apple and Walmart. But the hundreds of thousands of small stores, local stores, regional stores, that are the heart of the economy will be massacred.
As someone pointed out yesterday, this whole scrap is above all making China look like the reliable, stable, rational, trustworthy partner. That is going to be the most harmful thing coming out of this for the US.
China is in a situation - provoked by the US - where mutual trade is severely impacted.
They won't go crawling to Trump and they've made that very clear.
They will continue to get rid of US debt but with a common sense approach. They will tighten restrictions on critical minerals/rare earths. They could even switch away from Boeing to Airbus as a symbolic move. They will strengthen BRICS+ deals as well as tempt the EU.
At the end of the day it is Trump who started everything and it is Trump who will have to fix it.
He blinked first with the 90 day pause. Now he will have to blink again.Canada doesn’t hold much weight in trade, but China does. And they use it to push that weight around.The eu has been in tje news lately targeting American companies with laws that apply only to them. And on top of that, applying another set to only apple.You’ve also got Israel, Japan, South Korea, Vietnamese, and others negotiating.Of these, Israel, Japan, and South Korea are msjor players and hVe tje potential to shift the balance of global trading power.So while China has bullying power today, that may not last since that power comes directly from the victims. Now that one is fighting back, things get interesting.It’s better for the entire world to have a level playing field and fair trade. Not charging someone a lot more bevause they happen to be good at what they do.
