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Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs
Actually it’s mostly the sites that are part of a conglomerate. others owned by Future, Foundry/IDG, etc. which publish a myriad of tech/sciene, lifestyle blogs:sites/magazines, etc. which all push unified narratives for the most part, making it easy to mistake as a grassroots kind of sentiment. The many tech blogs owned by AOL, etc. are astounding in number as well. There are actually just a few common denominators tying them all together. It’s rare for a “mom and pop” type thing to survive in the face of the juggernaights. The homegrown stuff is usually scene in the podcast/YouTuber arena. Even with a successful independent site, there is leadership that encourages or discouraged certsin viewpoints. Easier when it’s a blog and not journalism.danox said:9secondkox2 said:
I think it’s more than that. Staff plus majority of the posting membership.22july2013 said:What is the ratio of anti- to pro- Trump on this website? About 10-1?Almost all of the serious tech sites (not actively sponsored by someone with an agenda) around the Internet are easily anti Orange Buffoonery, which is not a surprise, most people in science, medicine, programming, mathematics, finance need to think more clearly and plan long-term in order to make it in school or their careers it’s one of the reasons that Mitt Romney (former Bain CEO) can’t stand Trump and the ratio probably is 2/3 not 10 to 1. The cloudy thinking red areas are reversed the other way 60-40 taking Oklahoma or Tennessee (voting results) as an example.But you can still have your narrative/story.
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iPhone blamed for including journalist in highly classified bombing plans
It’s shocking that the government has been without a secure, closer messaging system.That’s wild.It is annoying how apps snd suggestiins get so jacked up sometimes.But this kind of thing highlights the absolute need for the government and military to have a closed, secure, encrypted messaging app.
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Apple plans another iPhone X style redesign for the iPhone 20
Gurman is Apple’s Trojan horse. He leaks what they want and provides misinformation when they want.JamesCude said:Educated guesses from way beyond sell date Gurman? No tbanks. -
Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs
It’s only logical right? Heck, back in 1995, nancy pelosi of all people was saying the exact same stuff trump is saying about the need for tariffs since we are being tariffed to death by everyone else. (I posted the video a few posts back) It’s necessary in order to level the playing field. The only thing trump is doing wrong is not being on the democrat side. I just watched a few day old interview with a Democrat analyst talking about how the democrats are failing in all the polling due to their inability to get a message together. His solution? Fight trump until they can figure out what they stand for? Crazy right? You fight for what you stand for. You don’t fight when you don’t know what that is. And when trump does something right, shows strong leadership and makes bold advances that favor America on the world stage, that’s something everyone can get behind. Instead we have folks that put party over people and “fight” (I thought that word was supposed to be inciting violence when trump uses it) the president just because he is Trump and Republican.lwr32 said:
So it’s ok that the US pays high tariffs for imports but when trying to even the playing field, it’s not alright for the US to raise our tariffs? Yet, it’s ok when the left raises tariffs but when the right does it, it’s not ok?AppleZulu said:"And, those same advisors came up with the faulty formula that the president applied, that has nothing to do with tariffs applied by countries importing US goods.
According to CNN, the 54% tariff that China has responded to, was made by dividing a given country's trade deficit by its exports to the US. Then the resulting figure was divided in half."
This should not go by without being noticed. The Trump administration claims the tariffs are "reciprocal," but since reciprocal tariffs would require complex, nuanced and detailed calculations, they instead chose a simple, unrelated formula they pulled out of their proverbial a$$ so they could quickly make up some numbers to use for their tariffs. It's important to understand that these are not brilliant stratagists playing three-dimensional chess to steer the ship of state, but morons falling all over themselves to implement whatever the Big Guy wants. "Signal gate" from last week further demonstrated this. These are all the proverbial D-students who put more effort into figuring out how to cheat on tests in high school than they ever did in trying to actually pass them. I mean, think about it. If they hadn't cheated, they wouldn't have even been D-students.
So Apple's stock price, your 401(k), and the price of just about everything are all being screwed up because the Big Guy wants to create chaos with tariffs, and the people he hired can't be bothered to find someone who can figure the math to actually do the thing that they claim they're doing. They are (to use another high-school metaphor because it seems so on-the-nose) "fixing" international trade by setting off cherry bombs in the boys' bathroom toilets.
China and other countries will get tired of paying our tariffs at some point and will negotiate with Trump.The fact is Tarriffs will force the other countries to reconsider their abusive positions in more ways than one. We’ve had the world robbing us blind while we play noce. We’ve had bad actor governments abusing our companies by making up new laws out of thin air that target only them and harm their business model, ultimately torturing it beyond recognition and forcing them to prop up competitors on their dime. That would be apple.Enough is enough. We finally have someone strong enough to stand up for us and our amazing companies. That’s worth at the very least the benefit of the doubt. You don’t have to cheerlead or pretend a person is perfect. But a blind person can see what’s wrong with the world trade tarriffs against us and the need to set it right. At the very least give the guy and his cabinet the benefit of the doubt and let them work. It just may turn out to be an amazing thing. If we did nothing, we continue to get robbed and abused on the world stage. And maybe that continued abuse worsens. No thanks. I’m sure Apple isn’t complaining in the short term about the opportunity to correct some of the corruption they’ve been dealing with forever as well as the more recent outrageous stuff.
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Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs
Those are covered under the “foreign goods” umbrella.Mike Wuerthele said:
Foreign goods? What about food from other countries? What about raw materials? Lumber, steel, concrete.9secondkox2 said:The rest button has been pressed. The system is powered down, but will power up with a fresh set of memory banks.Of course things are rough the day after. But let’s give it time to do what it’s going to do. There’s no arguing the USA has been unfairly treated in the world trading stage. Giving them some of their own medicine is necessary to level tje playing field. It’s not okay for us to pay sn ram dnd a leg to sell iverseas while they have it easy here. Or to be barred from selling there while they take over here.We can hold off our addiction to foreign goods for a short while so they can feel the squeeze and give ourselves strong legs to stsnd in moving forward. Short term pain got long term gain.With ford offering killer deals for the next 3 months the snd apple poised to sail through, I think we will be ok. Kinda me me wonder if anticipation of this isn’t why we have an m3 ultra instead of an m4 ultra.I can’t imagine there not being some communication about how to navigate this behind the scenes. The president and Apple’s CEO are brilliant people.
Ford's "killer deals" are literally sticker price. Apple isn't poised to "sail through." It hasn't even started making the iPhone 17, and it relies on discretionary income.This is not going to go the way you say it's going to go. There is no gain here.Fords deals aren’t msrp. They are a little below invoice. Employee pricing. Just went to check out the Bronco. It’s a pretty major deal. I’m shocked. There have been ways to get to this previously, but to offer it en masse across the board, even just for three months is major.We will see how it goes. I certainly am not going to pronounce judgement against it in two days.But the goal has been stated to make it fair trade for the USA on the international field. It’s a fact that we have been dispropoetuobstely targeted with high tariffs by other countries while they profit handsomely from the US. History has show that sitting back and just taking it isn’t the way to go - especially post-pandemic. So this is as good as shot as we’ve got. We can’t just sit back and keep asking them to “be nice please.” Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Of course there will be some pain. I’m thinking it’s short term.” But not necessarily quick. However it’s worth the attempt at the very least. If it all goes horribly awry, there is the option of doing an about-face.Tje only thing I would have done differently is that I wish the president would have given a formal address to the nation in order to calm the knee-jerk reactions. Of course msny would still react anyway. He has his detractors as well as supports. But it would have been a good thing.Either way, I think his cabinet has laid it all out very nicely on various news outlets and set the record straight.Time is going to tell on this one. If it ends up going bad, no amount of cheerleading will change that. And if it ends up a success, no amount of hate will change that either.In the meantime, we will see how American companies get creative and how American purchasing loyalties adjust.
