Priaptor1

Pretty amazing to read some of the comments made here.  

China needs our market to sell much more than we need their goods they make with slave labor, human rights violations, pollution, currency manipulation or industrial theft. If they lose the biggest market in the world OR disrupts their biggest market OR have to manipulate how they sell their artificially cheap goods, the delta on their currency and health and wellbeing as well as their inflated GDP gets crushed. 

China directly manipulates, through their government, in contrast to any good will, their economy.  To those of you too dense to understand, what was China's first response to these tariffs?  THEY THROUGH THEIR COMMIE GOVERNMENT directly devalued their currency, in order to try to offset the increased cost tariffs brings.  Not great for their people and not such a flip move for a "sleeping dragon".

As to how much American debt China holds, it is much less than most think.  Japan actually holds the most at 1.1 trillion followed by China at just 760 billion.  Both are actually just a minor amount compared to our total. While dumping by both will cause some hardship, it will be a blip with time no matter the disruption in the short term.  The claim of China's influence on our debt has been greatly overstated by the liberal left and their cult members love to quote the propaganda as "truth"

I love reading the hate America drivel.  These libs love to hate America and love to love our Enemies. I guess they miss that China, who was directly responsible for COVID then held the rest of the world, including us here in the USA hostage for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment such as their garbage masks. I guess we can ignore their massive buildup of military as they support N. Korea, Iran, provoke Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Philippines, etc. Libs can ignore their human rights violations, their massive polluting, their enslaved labor as well as all the other manipulative behavior of Xi and others.  WHY?  Because to a lib, these are all OK if it means they pay for few cents less for products they want rather than need while they sell out all of their hypocritical tenets of belief. 

JP234 said:

Well, that was a great show! Don't need an upgrade just yet, but it's good to see what's going to be available. The most interesting iPhone features to me were the Satellite SOS and Crash Decection. Seems like the camera has become the main focus of present and future upgrades. Not quite ready to ditch the DSLR and all those expensive lenses yet, though. Sure would like to see camera makers like Sony, Nikon and Canon with the ability to upload photos directly to my iCloud account!

Well to the contrary, the biggest introduction TODAY had nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with Hasselblad. Amazing and gorgeous new 100 megapixel MF camera, with 3 new fast leaf shutter lenses. With prices increasing as they are, the iPhone may soon surpass the Hassy

First 2 year refresh (for me) I won’t be upgrading. Nothing there. I was hoping for better AirPod Pros but even those were underwhelming. However I need a new pair and will be buying. Even the old Pros were the best so incremental upgrade is ok. I can’t imagine these products are going to give them a super cycle refresh buying frenzy. We will see 

sdw2001 said:

I can't get over what a monster this thing is.  Apple's "pro" machines have always been more marketed to prosumers/power users rather than true workstation users.  This machine changes everything.  

I'm not up on PC workstation class machines, so a question for someone who is:  Is there anything even close to this?  

There are many on the PC side of things, the difference is theirs are and have been delivering for a long time. They use different video cards and accelerators, mainly from Nvidia but accomplish the task in a similar manner. Just my opinion, but Apple has to deliver quicker to the Pro segment of their consumer base from time of announcement. Also, 6 years from their last upgrade doesn't cut it for most of us.  A big reason Apple lost out in the medical industry (during the Scully years) was just because of these reasons.  Apple used to be ubiquitous in the medical industry and now are non-existent.  Too bad because I always loved using Apple.