• Primax@lemmy.world
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    It’s coming true.

    And again “tariff must be paid by Apple” really shows that he still has no idea how they work.

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      Made in India + 25% tariff is still cheaper than made in Murica.

      That BS is just for media.

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      And knowing the cult of Apple, they’ll pay it because it makes them look wealthy. That is the whole culture of Apple Customer base.

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    This is what you get for bending down to the tyrant in inauguration day. You cant appease tyrants, you must fight them.

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    It is paid by consumers, not Apple. Other phone companies will raise prices as well to increase their profits, since iPhone prices will set a new high price. When Apple prices goes up 25% other phone companies can increase their prices by 15% and still be competitive to apple.

    Actually to make same profit due to lower phone sales Apple may have to raise price even higher than 25% or find other ways to get consumers to pay more. Die hard fans of Apple will buy, whatever the price.

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    Failed business man telling people how to run their businesses. I’ve got an idea about how to make American manufacturing cheaper universal healthcare.

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    This is actually a real socialist or even communist policy. The State controlling the businesses.

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        So, socialism doesn’t exist according to your definition since nowhere on this planet workers control shit.

        Ask former Soviet workers, Chinese workers, Cuban workers, North Korean workers and Vietnamese workers how much control on production they have.

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      How in god’s name is this promoting worker ownership of Apple’s phone production processes?

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        Last time I looked, the Soviet, Chinese and North Korean people didn’t own shit.

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          You just named 3 locations that aren’t socialist and of the three, one that no longer exists. Nice job.

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      It is authoritarian. Communist system devolve to authoritarianism because it is a natural progression (easy to do). Socialists can, but a good democratic political structure makes it harder.

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    Tim Apple could just buy him a fucking plane and be done with it. And that would open up some interesting opportunities, nahmean?

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      It’s what I’d do if I were an ambitious, resource hoarding, ass pimple billionaire.

      It’s obvious the way to Trump’s heart is to tell him he’s pretty and give him something .

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    It would take MINIMUM 10 years to even come close to like 60% manufactured in US. And that’s assuming the US upends the entire global tech industry by coming even kind of close to TSMC’s chip manufacturing tech.

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    I see the problem here. He’s talking to Tim Cook, who’s CEO of some cooking company. He needs to talk to Tim Apple.

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    You can know the impact of what building in the US would be by looking at Purism. They sell a Linux phone for $800. If you want the same phone built in the US, they charge $2000.

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      It really depends on what Trump means by " built in the US". It won’t be that big of a jump if Apple is just assembling them there. If every component has to come from the US it’s likely impossible.

      Apple is vertically integrated in a way many companies are not. It would be bad for them for sure but they already have really high profit margins. They could eat the cost and assemble in the US, but they won’t because they are already a velban good.