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When I first read that Apple executives wouldn’t be talking to John Gruber this year (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/29/the-talk-show-live-tickets-2025) I interpreted it as a snub. But now I wonder if the Apple executives are just going into hiding. 

I have now fully come around to agreeing that It’s time for Tim Cook to go. 

fred1 said:

The reasons given that prevent iPhones from being made in the US - “there is not the required skilled labor, there is not a supply of the rare minerals needed, and there are no facilities.” - can be dealt with, but would take years to implement. It’s not impossible, but the overnight change the Orange Man wants can’t happen.  Does he really not understand this? 

Agreed. Stating that’s it’s physically impossible to manufacture iPhones in the US is over the top absurd and ultimately benefits Trump because it makes him look relatively less dumb than he would otherwise look.

of course it’s possible. It would just be more expensive to do that than pay the tariff, especially given that the tariff might not be there by the time the US supply chain is built.

I wonder if in China the iPhone is now more a symbol of Donald Trump than of Steve Jobs. 

The difference between a 145% tariff and a 30% tariff is that with 145% shelves would be empty, with 30% the shelves won't be empty but the stuff on them will be a fair bit more expensive than before. Remember, people lost their minds when prices went up 7% over the course of a year under Biden.