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WilliamM said:

tokyojimu said:

Maybe it will finally be cheaper to buy Apple products in countries other than the US.

No. Prices will go up everywhere else to subsidise Americans.

Xed said:

mikethemartian said:

How much does Apple really know about manufacturing? They are an R&D company. They out source their manufacturing to other companies. Obviously there is some percentage of engineers at Apple that understand the manufacturing process so they can act as an interface between the R&D team and the contract manufacturers but I would expect that team to be smaller than the R&D team.

Are you stating that Apple simply gives someone like Foxconn the next iPhone and tells them to figure out how to build it?

danox said:

Intel has nothing of value to offer, they are in a pickle with their own operations, how are they going to help Apple as a competitor to Apple? answer they can’t, do they even have a qualified CEO charge right now and I mean, a technocrat not another MBA CEO? on top of that, it will take years to get up to speed. 

There is nothing that can be done within the next three-five years that’s going to help Apple, you can put in an order into ASML today (good luck) and timeline would still be the same, the stupidity shown by this current administration will cause most of American tech companies 5 to 10 years and billions of dollars because there is nothing instantaneous in any of the solutions that actually need to be done if that is the path chosen. It’s nothing personal. The time needed is the time.

The problem is the fantasy by this administration, that a massive tax increase imposed on the American consumer is going to so solve the problem, the damage that this misguided administration is doing to the country can’t be fixed if allowed to run its course the Canada, Mexico tariff fiasco combined with Elon, a Vance trip to Greenland and that Signal message leak just screams utter and complete incompetence. (This administration is completely unfit for any mission, be it short or long-term would you trust this band of men to run your business any business?).

charlesn said:

Marvin said:

This is what the government spending cuts and tariffs are about. If there's a better way to fix the debt issue other than cutting spending and trying to make up trade deficits, they'd probably like to hear some ideas. These moves suggest they don't have any better ones.

In mid-October last year, the widely respected financial journal, The Economist, ran with this headline and cover story: "The American Economy: The Envy of the World." And the sub-head was: "The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust." Not bad for the country that Trump has would have the brain-dead believe is in an "economic emergency" and the trading partner punching bag of the world. If so many countries are taking advantage of us, it would seem they're doing a pretty bad job of it! 

The last time we tried tariffs this insane (Trump's are actually worse than Smoot-Hawley), they helped usher in the Great Depression. So there's your "proof of concept" and the reason high tariffs have been discredited by economists left, right and center ever since. It also goes without saying that triggering a recession and stagflation with this stupidity will cut growth and revenue, thereby driving up deficits even higher. And spare me the BS that Trump, the self-styled King of Debt, has ANY interest in solving the debt problem. In his first term, his unpaid for tax breaks to the richest blew up the national debt by more than all 44 previous presidents COMBINED. 

As for spending cuts: the Pentagon budget is nearly $850 billion dollars and for decades has been spending more each year than the next 8-10 largest militaries in the world COMBINED. So how is it that we're always falling behind our adversaries? Why are so many weapons systems wildly overbudget, hugely behind schedule and never work as advertised? Seems like a place that's rife with waste, fraud and abuse. Musk, himself, has excoriated "idiots who are still building the F-35" and has pleaded, "...in the name of all this is holy, let us stop the worst military value for the money in history, which is the F-35 program." Did DOGE stop it? Nope. Where are the mass DOGE firings at the Pentagon? Why hasn't DOGE taking over the Pentagon computers? Why hasn't DOGE limited Pentagon credit cards to $1? Instead, DOGE is devastating health care and services for the veterans who risked their bodies and lives in defense of this country. Nice! DOGE isn't looking for waste, fraud and abuse--it is indiscriminately taking a chainsaw to the government to free up more money for tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.