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Google tells me California has the highest sales tax in the US (7.25%). $1,199+7.25%= $1,285. Quite a long way off $1,650.
Including local taxes, Chicago has a 10.25% sales tax. True, in Italy, VAT is 22%.
 
Sounds like manufacturing is just starting. No release date announced. Assembled by a company with a shady past. What could possibly go wrong?
 
Time for Apple to diversify, start assembling out of China.
Evening they did, that’s not an overnight action that will just ‘happen’. That could take years to find a supplier that can meet Apples expectations, demands and yields for what they need for production. There’s a lot of logistics that need to follow first in order to diversify in another country.
 
1200 dollars?? Lucky you!!
Here in Italy is like 1650 dollars (after taxes).
Let's compare apples to apples for these Apples! It's $1200 before taxes in the US. The VAT in Italy is 22%, which means it's $1311 before taxes in Italy (or maybe less if there are other taxes in addition to VAT).

Apple has no control over how much taxes are.
 
Evening they did, that’s not an overnight action that will just ‘happen’. That could take years to find a supplier that can meet Apples expectations, demands and yields for what they need for production. There’s a lot of logistics that need to follow first in order to diversify in another country.
Agreed, but in the end, that should be the main goal.
 
How bad the delay would be this time then? I suspect the back order of MacBook Pro 14“ 16” is still strong.
Heard something happens again. I doubt the delay won’t go any better.
Sounds like production hasn’t even started. I can only imagine the potential quality control problems.
 
and that's why i specified "after taxes", which account for the 21% here, so around 350 USD. How about in the US, what's the average tax for electronic products?
It varies drastically by location, a few places it’s zero, and others it’s around 10%, and pretty much everything in between.
 
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