exploitation of workers is ok, as long as its not happening in your country...
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Proposed Tariffs Will Impact Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Mac Mini and More
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If you really support him then you should send him
I find it interesting that Apple by itself is worth 2.5 times the dollar value of the trade deficit. Makes it not seem so large.
So you’d throw shade at Apple like that to throw shade at the President, by implicating a dirty deal is made possible and put forth by Apple to have their way with things?
Interesting... Aren’t those like mutually exclusive stances regarding this topic?
He has rescued America from the swamp and put it in the sewer.
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I don't quite follow you. But if you don't think that Trump would put his own financial interests ahead of his cannon fodder you are naive. Just like if those people on Tangier Island want to get their wall they better ante up.
That's what it was in 2017 alone. Add up 30 years of trade deficits.
You are suggesting if Apple were to try to buy off Trump into calling off tariffs, Trump would bite the bait cause thats what he does, he’s corrupt all the time without specificity.
...But if that were the case, Apple, too, would be at fault for BUYING OFF Trump and extending a dirty offer like that to him.
It’s not tough.
You’re presenting mutually exclusive stances, and co-habitating them and thinking passion is what will make people nod their heads. makes zero sense but please continue your outrage. Because That takes precedence over consistency of thought and argument and presenting something interesting.
False. Or, rather, it's still a net loss, as offshoring grew even faster and that trend is expected to increase with the stupid tariffs.
https://www.atkearney.com/operation...rmation/article?/a/reshoring-in-reverse-again
AFAIK, it has never been useful as a negotiating tactic and it’s not working now. It’s essentially a tax on Americans which we haven’t felt fully because most big companies buy inventory months in advance and probably loaded up before the first wave of tariffs hit.
Trump is doing the Democrats a favor IMO cos if he’s dumb enough to keep this going, the effects of his tariffs will be felt by every American and there will be a blue tsunami come November. But then again, I don’t think anyone would mistake Trump for a strategic thinker.
Lol
Ain’t gonna be no blue wave tsunami in the midterms cause the price of homepods and the watch is going up.
Wishful thinking my dude
... are you Tim Cook?
Maybe Apple shouldn’t have its head buried way up China’s anus.
China is not our friend.
China is not our friend.
Well it is, it appears various countries are coming to the table. China can't too much longer because manufacturing doesn't belong to any one country, it moves when there is enough pressure dis-incentivizing it. China knows this and they know doing a deal with the US is inevitable. They are very likely looking for a way out that maximizes saving face.
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I agree with you on the effects of tariffs and who pays for it ultimately. Though a trade show-down with China was inevitable. In many ways they started this trade war and nobody was willing to say enough. I have business in trade with China, they had much more tariffs in place to start with and it made it difficult to do business on many products from the US. And China is very well capable of free trade agreements as they have them signed with various countries. They were being strategic with us so they could benefit. There is nothing wrong with us being strategic with them so that we could benefit.
Now my question for you is, is one or two years of higher tariffs worth 10 years of lower tariffs for both sides?
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Well you're wrong about it never being useful as a negotiating tactic because these so called threats have been bringing major countries to the negotiating table.
It actually worked with Europe and Canada. Well Canada was tariffs and leverage from Mexico but tariffs nonetheless. China will be the last to come to the table, as expected but its a matter of time. The more countries that come to the table the more pressure it puts on others to come to an agreement.
The interesting thing is almost all of these countries already know that they need to lower their tariffs, they all talk about free trade but put tariffs because they want the best deal for their country. The right thing to do is for all countries to ultimately go lower and lower. A lot of people disagree that tariffs is the wrong way to go about getting there. I used to disagree too but I see it working, and working better than I ever thought.
I don't know. I ordered a part on eBay that came from China. Took a while to get here but cost me $5 with free shipping. Not feeling pinch here.
Apple HAS to pass the cost along to the customer
Wouldn’t be morally
Right if they didn’t
I thought the already did. Passing on the cost of stock options, yachts, seven figure salaries....
I don't think Apple will lose one cent over this.
We all will in the short term, but hopefully it will drive up manufacturing and employment in North America.
We all will in the short term, but hopefully it will drive up manufacturing and employment in North America.
Wouldn’t that be something?
Something with the fruit logo on it, made in America. Even if just watch bands and accessories
...aside from the Mac
Pro trash bin that was
Assembled in Austin for PR
purposes for the dozens of people who bought them years ago
I had and still have the same mentality, but when I was presented with a few different perspectives as to the actual scale of what's being attempted through these tariffs, I decided to have a more understanding and forgiving attitude toward them; I found these to be particularly interesting:
Like you or anyone else would do it any different. Of course they will. Governments and corporations want money. Guess where they get it from?