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iPhones, Macs, and Other Apple Devices Exempted From Trump Tariffs

Macaholic868 said:
So the bribe, I mean “donation”, that Tim Cook made to Donald Trump was money well spent after all. Now let’s see the creative accounting involved in the bonuses Apple pays out to Cook to reimburse him four that expense.
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The "bribe" went to the event not the person.

It's like saluting a military person you dont like: "I salute the rank not the individual" :)
 
Have to say this is purely anecdotal, but I haven't seen MBPs at MSRP at Best Buy in a while. But right now they match the price at Apple.
 
TgeekB said:
He’s been talking about it for decades. All him and the people he purposely surrounds himself with (Yes men).
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But Trump is notorious for sometimes falling back when someone at least partially sane breaks from his usual bunch of enablers and sits him down and tells him about the actual consequences of his plans. As you imply, a fair number of the details that have gone into his tariff "ideas" have been the product of other people who have his ear, and are working for their own ends, happy that Trump favoring tariffs in general plays into their hands as well. They're enablers, and there's a good chance that if they weren't supporting this nonsense, that Trump's approach to tariffs, while still insane, might not be nearly as insane. Or maybe they'd be more insane, or somehow both at the same time.
 
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Now his administration has come out and said it’ll get tariffs within a month or two since it’ll be lumped into the semiconductor tariff. wtf
 
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The_Gream said:
lol.

Trump being Trump.
But also people being people. People panic, which causes problems, but the reason for their panic never bears fruit.
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It can be easily argued that the ONLY job of a President is to keep citizens from panicking while letting the country run itself. Trump and Musk go out of their way to troll the public daily. Even MAGA cannot disagree with this assertion.
 
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Analog Kid said:
Reality isn't simply conjured up with baseless assertions. These things are knowable.

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It was Jobs who was pushing margins up through the roof. Within 6mos of his death, Cook had brought them back under control and kept them far more stable over the next decade than Jobs ever did. Margins began growing again with the rise of Apple's services business, which is a much higher margin business than hardware manufacturing.

I don't see any signs of a Cook "tariff". Profits have grown under Cook because sales have grown, not because of some baseless price increase. Sales have grown because, despite what so many people here seem to want to believe, more people have wanted more Apple products. And the products people seem to want, much to the disappointment of my iPhone Mini loving self, are the high end ones.
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Please stop making sense. It's simply not allowed.
 
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Audit13 said:
Wait, tariffs are sort of back on?

nypost.com

Trump says no exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics — suggests new tariff coming

“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,'” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday.
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I was going to post that but you did the work for the rest of us.

Yeah, it's all absurd.

An absurd comedy some might call it.

Except the end result is not funny, but of chaos is confusion, and that leads to bad places.

Trump is a petulant fool.

The computer companies can only keep raising prices as they have to prepare for shocks... until some great recession hits and then they have to cut production by some large fraction of what they used to do.

See also: Billionaire Ray Dalio: ‘I’m worried about something worse than a recession’
 
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nnoble said:
It's the Tangerine Typhoon that's polarising people. The best thing he could do now is donate his brain to a recently affronted university and then immediately create the conditions for research to begin. No hurry; by the end of next week would be nice. And if Eyeliner Vance could join him in a jar of formaldehyde then all might be forgiven - in time.
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That is funny, but it is absurd :)
 
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BuddyTronic said:
He is golfing 25% of the time according to this.

I don't believe it, do you?

21 days golfing? What the heck? If he played 21 rounds of golf I'd be surprised.

I'll bet against this being true.
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The website has the receipts, go take a look. Trump went golfing instead of attending the repatriation of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania.
 
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Richard8655 said:
Good point. He's been successful, but in my opinion not necessarily with the best strategy. Not panicking here as my Apple purchases are infrequent and always the base (cheapest) models of everything.
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I mean, let's play everybody's favourite game - what would Steve Jobs do in such a situation? He was never the supply chain guru, and he's just as unlikely to bring manufacturing back to the US.
 
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