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radarthekat said:

timmillea said:

Trump's tariffs only affect goods imported in to the USA. Retaliatory tariffs will affect goods exported from the USA. The bulk of Apple's sales are not in the USA and almost all of its manufacturing is outside the USA. Hence most of Apple's business will be unaffected.

Trump has created an incentive to manufacture in the USA for domestic consumption but also an incentive to manufacture outside the USA for sales in the rest of the World. As manufacturing costs are higher in the USA, the net effect is likely to be higher prices but only in the USA. 

And Apple could raise price worldwide to recoup some of all of the cost of the tariffs on U.S. imports.  Here’s the way I see it, and these are very rough numbers used only for illustration.

About 75% of Apple’s global revenue is hardware, the other 25% being software and subscriptions, etc.  

One third of that 75% is U.S., the rest being overseas sales.  

So if Apple were to split the tariff hit across the entire world it would have to raise prices by only one third as much as it would on U.S. hardware sales, if it were to attempt to cover the entire tariff hit just against U.S. sales.  That’s a mitigation, but it’s still a huge increase in prices.  

meterestnz said:

lordjohnwhorfin said:

I still can’t believe people voted for this moron. It’s sad to see the pathetic joke this once great country has become.

For many people through out the world, who understand the the risks of the current worldwide Marxist takeover, your country is seen as once again leading a global recovery. 

jfabula1 said:

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.

We’ve been subsidizing the world, about time we have a President who have balls….Americans been used to cheaper products made by American companies in foreign lands where cheap labors are abundant….we been spoiled for too long and borrowing for too long, now it’s time to pay up.

auxio said:

cloudguy said:

Oracle bought Sun - who agreed to let Google use the APIs and stated so in the trial - because they thought that they could make hundreds of billions of Java licenses. They didn't know - because I guess all their programmers were still using PL/1 and COBOL - that virtually none of the people who used Java paid for it

Wrong.  Most of the major mobile hardware companies were licensing Java at the time (Blackberry, Nokia, etc).  You're only looking at the desktop side of things.

anantksundaram said:

Actually, Apple should simply: (1) Create an ApplePay app for use in Android devices; (2) Insist, however, that it is premised on being able to implement its needed security protocols, which includes the requirement of lack of data-sharing and of hardware features that Android must build into its devices from the get-go; (3) If Android makers fail to provide those security protocols, Apple should bring an EU antitrust complaint against Google (yeah, and not its proxies) and Android.

You know that Android users -- especially post-COVID where no one wants to touch a frikkin' POS device -- would FLOCK to ApplePay, and Apple would collect a couple of pennies on every transaction, i.e., many billions of dollars.

Let's see how long these stupid complaints last.