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longfang said:

mikethemartian said:

Bribes are always temporary until the next payment.

He has altered the deal, pray he does not alter it further. 

This deal is getting worse all the time.

How can factory owners decide to buy new equipment with all these constant changes to policy? How can small business owners decide to hire additional workers with all of these constant changes to policy? How can workers decide to change jobs with all of these constant changes to policy? How can parents of children approaching college-age make decisions about their 529 college savings plans with all of these constant changes to policy? How can people approaching retirement age make decisions about whether to move from the equities market to the fixed-income market with all of these constant changes to policy? How can anybody do anything with all of this insanity?!?

robin huber said:

To those who criticized Tim’s “sucking up to Trump,” you can thank him now for the exemption he got. 

Partial-exemption. There is still a 20% tariff on all Chinese imports into America… unless that gets changed as well on Sunday (or Monday during market-trading hours). The tariff rate changes basically every day, so Lord only knows what the tariff news will be tomorrow. Well… I suppose the people in Trump’s orbit trading on insider information might know what the next tariff news will be. 

spunkmeyer said:

The tariffs, threatened or implemented, have managed to destroy a lot of goodwill around the world for the United States for decades. This will directly affect people's decision to purchase products for US companies. It's already happened in Canada and has been well-covered by the media.

Manufacturing origin is one issue; the other is the conscious boycott of Apple products in other countries as a statement of dissatisfaction.

I understand your in-the-moment visceral reaction to all of this, but… America doing ‘unpopular’ things is nothing new. This is just new for certain countries that aren’t usually directly on the receiving end of America’s unpopular decisions. America has done unpopular things for decades and people have continued to buy American products during those decades.

hugo62 said:

The real problem for Apple could well be international resentment and dissolution with America, its companies and services as a result of the policies of the Trump administration. America is less than 5% of the world’s population, yet Trump is flexing American muscle against its friends, whilst appeasing aggressors. All of which affect almost the entire planet. Such policy shifts are not going down well across greater Europe and within the UK… time will tell. However, i have already started to question the purchase of certain American goods and services.

Not to be too… well… this might be a new feeling for Western Europeans (being directly in the metaphorical-crosshairs of America — that Europe has benefited from in the past), but the rest of the world has been dealing with this for decades (crosshairs both metaphorical and actual).