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  • Amazon denies it had plans to be clear about consumer tariff costs

    timpetustimpetus
    hmlongco said:
    Toortog said:
    Let make a deal keep these tarrifs but eliminate all federal income taxes.      Tariffs is how the country used to make the money they ran the country on, then around 1910 they decided to start the federal income tax program to generate the money to fund the country.    So federal income tax is now a total mess with the rich and big corporations play little to no taxes and the middle class playing.    So tariffs instead of income tax sounds good to me.   

    So... the entire stated goal behind the tariffs is to move production here so that we no longer import goods...

    Which, if it occurred, would mean no income from tariffs. (Nothing imported, nothing taxed.) So how does that work again?

    Regardless, Trumpy is going to use fake tariff math to justify yet another corporate tax cut and balloon the deficit even further.

    As to displaying tariff prices on the receipt. Amazon should definitely do that.

    So should Apple.
    As an anarchist, these terms are acceptable. As a realist, I'm unfortunately quite confident that we'll end up keeping both income taxes and tariffs, and the deficit and national debt will still keep rising exponentially anyway.
    watto_cobra

  • Hands on with all four iPhone 17 dummy models

    timpetustimpetus
    Well, I guess they don't care about it looking good anymore, it's like the 2026 Outback of phones. They don't even seem to be making any use of the extra space under that ridiculous camera bar. They could at least put extra battery or other components in there. What I really want is a return of the flush lenses, like we had with the 5S and before. If that means we have to make the end of the phone thicker, that's fine with me!
    mike1williamlondonappleinsideruserleftoverbacondebonboncolumbiaCalamander

  • How to install App Store apps on an external SSD

    timpetustimpetus
    Shouldn't be this weird, but I don't really want to use the Mac App Store anyway so I'm kind of happy they are making it difficult. On a computer, I want maximum freedom to install apps and store all my files wherever I want - that's sort of the point of desktop computers with a file system.
    jibwilliamlondonmacguineoncat

  • EU will force Apple to totally expose its iPhone features to all who ask

    timpetustimpetus
    neelypeely said:
    I live in the UK and support Apple in this. They should pull out of the eurozone market, to hell with whatever financial loss that incurs. And people wonder why we voted for Brexit!?
    Right you are! I totally understood Brexit and never heard an argument against it that made any sense. The EU is a cancer, like all bureaucracies, and it's metastasizing at a rate proportional to its behemoth size. I hold Apple stock, but I don't care if it takes a beating - they should pull out of the EU until these stupid demands cease. Hardball is the game they want to play, then so be it.
    dtownwarriorlongpathWesley_HilliardtiredskillsIamskypatjbdragonxyzzy-xxxjibbshankTheSparkle

  • M1 Max, M2 Max, M4 Max compared - how high-end Apple Silicon has evolved

    timpetustimpetus
    Do we not know how many more P and E cores are in the 16-core M4 Max? Twice in the article you just stated that the 16-core version offers "more power" without specifying that it has 2 more P cores, for a total of 12. Seemed like an odd omission, similar to the lack of any mention that the M1 Max came in a 24-core GPU version, as Jeromec noted above.
    watto_cobra