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I think I'm experiencing a failure of imagination because I can't figure out why I would want or need a robot that roams around on my physical desktop or tabletop. 

But I'm happy to be enlightened if anyone has ideas... 

Trump just hates the Biden policy because it was Biden's policy. 

But it's Biden's policy that resulted in a the TSMC fab in AZ and it's that fab that will enable Apple to get around this tariff. 

Earlier this year Taiwan changed the policy that TSMC can only fab on the latest node in Taiwan. This means that TSMC can bring the latest node to AZ much faster than before. 

So all Apple has to do is move a lot of inventory into the US before the tariff and pay TSMC to expedite the rollout of N3P in AZ. 

Stabitha_Christie said:.

This is such an insanely bad take I have to question if it was meant to be satire  

Seriously, tell us you don’t know what open sourced software is without saying “I don’t know what open sourced software is.”  This is covered under the MIT license so it’s  not “controlled by hostile nation”.  Users can download it, change it and even include it proprietary software

The license itself makes it a fairly big deal. The other thing is getting it to run on lower end hardware. Your claim that whipping this up is somehow easy because other LLMs exist is just nonsense. If OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta could get their models to run on cheaper gear, they would. All of them are spending a ton on data centers and trying to figure out how to power said data centers. This level of efficiency would be a boon for them. 

Totally this. 

I wonder if there might be a sense in which China does partially pay for the tariffs indirectly, for two reasons. First, Trumps overall bundle of policies is likely to be inflationary, which leads to higher interest rates. Higher interest rates attract foreign investors which pushes the dollar higher. A stronger dollar makes imports less expensive. This feedback loop is a second order effect and by itself won’t offset the higher tariffs, but it’s a piece of the puzzle.

Another piece of the puzzle is that China isn’t a “normal” country, which is to say it doesn’t behave the way economics text books assume. The Chinese economy is deeply distorted and unbalanced by government policies. They have vastly over invested in housing and infrastructure. And the CCP dreads the political instability from mass unemployment. They also have a weird ideological opposition to domestic consumption.

So, to maintain employment and the stability of the regime, their choice could be between building yet another bridge to nowhere or selling manufactured goods abroad at a huge loss. That’s the pathway by which Trumps claim might be at least partly true. 

To the extent Apple does make such investments it will likely be due to Biden administration policies and geopolitical considerations