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  • Trump demands 25% tariff on any iPhone not made in the US

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    prairiewalker said:
    Isn’t such specific company focus for a tariff illegal? Not that Trump wouldn’t have “his DOJ” go after Apple alone with some made up charge.
    Tim’s investment of his time and money to feed the king’s ego has been a waste.
    Yes, but it would be trivially easy to write a tariff that impacts only Apple without mentioning Apple. There are plenty of laws, tariffs, tax breaks and the link that are targeted like this.
    watto_cobra

  • Trump demands 25% tariff on any iPhone not made in the US

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    JMaille said:
    fred1 said:
    The reasons given that prevent iPhones from being made in the US - “there is not the required skilled labor, there is not a supply of the rare minerals needed, and there are no facilities.” - can be dealt with, but would take years to implement. It’s not impossible, but the overnight change the Orange Man wants can’t happen.  Does he really not understand this? 
    No, it really is impossible.  Building products like an iPhone or iPad in the United States requires changes in many parts of American society that are not under Apple's control.  Just the ones you mentioned: Skilled labor requires, at a minimum, changes to the educational system not to mention the motivations of American workers, rare minerals , at a minimum, equire changes to regulations and the government's approach to mining operations, the lack of facilities requires, at a minimum, additional changes to regulations, changes to the motivations of other companies, and on and on.

    For Apple to move manufacturing to the United States requires a stable economy and significant action by other people, other companies, state and local governments, and the United States Federal Government.  In short, for Apple to move manufacturing to the Unties States requires a competent Federal Administrative Branch of the United  States, run by a competent individual who makes intelligent decisions based on facts.

    So long as we have the current moron in chief with his gaggle of sycophants and fools and a country apparently populated by a significant number of people that thinks said moron, sycophants, and fools are doing a good job, it is literally impossible for Apple to move manufacturing to the United States.

    Stop trying to argue otherwise -- it's just normalizing the behavior of the idiots.

    I've posted the same point as fred1 recently. It is just poor journalism/reporting/communication to assert that "making iPhones in the US is impossible."  It is 100% accurate to say "it would be prohibitively expensive to make iPhones in the US and there isn't the manufacturing capacity to meet even a tiny fraction of demand."  As fred1 points out, saying it's "impossible" is easy to refute; a more precise statement could not be refuted.

    Neither of us is arguing that it's feasible to shift manufacturing on shore or that Trump is saying anything that makes sense. We're just saying that more precise language is better than less.
    IreneWbaconstangBart Ywatto_cobra

  • Trump demands 25% tariff on any iPhone not made in the US

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    MassiveAttack said:
    Apple is the worst stock performer YTD among Magnificant 7 anyway. 

    Trump gives a good reason why Tim Cook may stay as CEO at Apple although his performance as CEO has been poor for years. 

    Rotten Apple can justify that it is Trump´s fault for bad performance on the stock market. 

    Trump can blame on Apple for higher unemployment rate because Apple does not move their production to the US. 

    Still hard to believe that US Americans elected Trump as the US president. 

    US Americans have been brainwashed anyway. They don´t get any proper education. 

    Apple is rotten. The US "small" government is rotten. And the majority of the US Americans still likes it. 
    There is no "anyway."  AAPL is down almost solely because of this tariff nonsense. Most of the other big tech firms don't make their money selling hardware, so they haven't been hit as hard.
    ilarynxjeffharrischiabaconstangBart Ywatto_cobra

  • Your iCloud password could be newly exposed from a giant password leak

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    netrox said:
    I don't get it - passwords should ALWAYS be hashed and salted. How can passwords be exposed? Are they still using plaintext? Surely, it cannot be with Meta, Apple, Google, they already know never to hold passwords in plaintext. 

    You cannot use hashed passwords to authenticate. 


    Excellent question/point. Conceivably these are the result of a massive brute force effort, I suppose. Once you get a hit, you know the password for an account even if only the hash was stored on the backend.
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • OpenAI & Jony Ive's AI necklace rumored to have iPod shuffle form factor

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    Weren't there at least 2 different iPod Shuffles with completely different form factors? One was a stick of gum; one was a clip-on square. I'm sure I have examples of both in a drawer somewhere. So which are we talking about?
    mattinozwatto_cobra