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Tim apple will charge tariffs on these and your dumb ass will pay.....
Let's see how a normal American reaction looms in 12 months 🐸
Fuck apple.
No they won’t - not for the inventory that’s already in-country. Apple sells things as DDP - Delivered Duty Paid. Look up what that means. It’s pretty clear.
How does DDP prevent apple from upping MSRP?
It doesn’t, nor should it prevent them, if I’m being blunt. A 100%+ tariff on the country where they produce their shit is tantamount to telling them as a company that they’re simply not allowed to make any profit anymore whatsoever, within the United States. And it would basically force them to operate as a de facto charity if they didn’t raise their prices in the US as a result. Which - for those in the back - is precisely the fucking point everyone is making about tarrifs and how stupid they are. This is all just a money grab by orangeboi.
This isn’t me being an Apple Stan; this is just simple economics. It’s applicable to ANY company that’s producing stuff in China.
Also, if orangeboi tries to do some sort of executive order of “Tim Apple isn’t allowed to raise his prices in the US”, that’s a nakedly apparent shakedown.
I see your point but I have hard time giving any fucks about shit mega corpo getting hurt after Tim apple went and sucked trump off on TV
They deserve each other. Only thing I care about is working folk getting fucked but that has been going since Civilization started and we just bare it some of even worship the regime and their whores.
I get that - again, not trying to shill for Apple here. My point is that it sets an incredibly dangerous and overt precedent if it ends up panning out like that.
Yeah but how long will that inventory last? A couple of weeks maybe? Certainly not for any of the new products they have in their schedule for the year, those will have to be a lot more expensive to keep their margins somewhat stable.
Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.
That’s already a thing in Mexico (with a 3rd party reseller)
Wow. Aren’t we Mexicans inventive?
Most carriers seem to offer a cheaper rental contract now
It's also an option with some of the Canadian companies so I have to make sure the two year term is to-own whenever I get a new phone.
Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it.
I really like iPhones (more so iOS), especially with sideloading now.
But if leasing becomes norm and we can’t purchase it or get it through subscription of service (2 years with Vodafone and then the phone is yours kind of thing). I’ll just purchase an older Samsung. Then I’ll take the loss and struggle for a few months with the interface and all that.
The only good thing about most Android phones is that you can install a different version of Android devoid of all things Google and get an interface that isn't Samsung. That's my plan when this subscription crap comes around or the phones are too expensive that I can't afford them anymore. I'm too tied into Apple's ecosystem with mail, iCloud, and Music.
Also, buy some other brand that's cheaper because Samsung makes garbage and don't support their hardware unless they're flagship. Admittedly, it's been almost a decade since I've had anything but an iPhone, but I had a couple Samsung Android phones were an update broke the phone and Samsung wouldn't release a fix because it was an update from Google. One in particular was a Samsung Moment on Sprint where it would enter into airplane mode silently and still look like it was connected to services until you went to use said services. They refused to provide an update to resolve the issue.
Samsung has had 7 (5 of updates and 2 security support) years support por flagships and 5 years (4 updates, 1 security) for the A series for over 5 years now. They've had their hiccups with updates, but so have all phone manufacturers.
That's good to hear, because back then that wasn't the case. I know no matter what model iPhone I get, if it's new then support is the same for every model from that year.
I, similarly, ordered a shitload of ramen noodles from sayweee.com/en before the tariffs kicked in. They haven’t arrived yet but when they do, it’s going to be a box so big, my neighbors are going to assume I got new furniture.
Follow up: check out this bountiful harvest. It came in two boxes.
Tariffs apply when they arrive at port, not when you order. Yours might not ever show up because if they don't pay the tariffs by EOD after arriving at port they get destroyed.
I think Weee probably already imported the Ramen and it’s in a warehouse, not being made to order. But it’s ok. I can probably afford the tax on ramen noodles. I’m partial to the spicy kimchi ones anyway so they’re probably South Korean. I also love the cheapest, finest shrimp flavored packets that are like $1 each. (I ate them as a kid so they’re a comfort food.) Those might even be made in America.
Also, Master P has a gumbo-flavored Ramen product and there’s always yaka mein. I live in New Orleans and those could be made here for all I know. (Yaka mein is definitely made here. It’s basically ramen noodles but with Creole New Orleans broth and seasoning. The legend is that Chinese laborers building the railroads introduced the concept of ramen to black laborers in New Orleans and a new, cheap dish was born. It was eventually marketed as a hangover cure and called “Old Sober” but it’s called yaka mein now.)
Pretty smart really. Good shelf life, easy prep, calorie dense.
Not exactly healthy...
In fact, its worse than even fast food.
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the guy is not the problem. it is the customer!
