• @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    424 minutes ago

    He still has absolutely no clue how tariffs work. Amazing for someone who throws them left and right without thinking. Although the latter might explain it.

  • @vala@lemmy.world
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    294 hours ago

    I wonder if he knows apple simply can not comply with this. Apple doesn’t know how to make iPhones (at the scale and rate needed) and no one in the US does either.

    RIP

  • @Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    124 hours ago

    Well, technically, any kind of tariff added to the import is always paid by Apple, who else would pay it? Some unrelated company? A foreign country?

    They will simply increase the price by an amount that will keep them making the same amount of money. The main problem is that because they like to do a round price worldwide, we European we’ll pay more too, so they can make more money. Assholes

    • @SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
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      71 hour ago

      Don’t buy Apple. Problem solved. I will not accept arguments about ‘but the eco-system blah-blah’

      Sticks Fingers in ears lalalalalala

    • Flukas88
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      102 hours ago

      We can always respond with our money and not buy an iPhone

      • Prior_Industry
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        427 minutes ago

        If Apple can push the price further into the thousands won’t Samsung, etc follow anyway?

        People thought a phone that was $1000 would never sell, Apple came out with the pro models and now here we are with the high end models all being a thousand plus.

  • @Primax@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It’s coming true.

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

    • @Inucune@lemmy.world
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      65 hours ago

      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.

      • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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        24 hours ago

        'What’s up, everybody? This is your boy Apple Lad, and I came through with one of those Tariff I Phones, just so I can unbox it for you!

  • @Ironfist@sh.itjust.works
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    297 hours ago

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

  • Lit
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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.

  • bitwolf
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    4210 hours ago

    Killing Biden’s CHIPs act certainly didn’t help that cause.

  • @Formfiller@lemmy.world
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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.

  • @Vari@lemm.ee
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    159 hours ago

    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.

  • TorJansen
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    7812 hours ago

    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.