Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US
Trump has become schizophrenic again.
Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I've never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.
Sigh...at least Apple is getting screwed over though. They've been impeding right to repair for a long time, perhaps their karmic debt is finally catching up to them.
4 more years of this comedy over there, im laughing too much already! xD
are you going to keep laughing when he extorts another world leader of a country Russia is invading? Or helps finish off palestine for good?
it effects the entire world pal, just cause its not visibly right outside your front door doesnt mean youre above it
also, being smug is a shitty look
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Let's not armchair diagnose people, please.
Let's. And don't tell us what to do.
I think I will. Thanks for your input though.
Yeah I don’t like the sort of sanism it often implies.
Even with tariffs it's still not financially viable to Apple to bring manufacturing to the U.S. and if they still decided to it would take 10to 15 years to get going. It ain't gonna happen. Sad oompa-loompa.
Trump is playing the long game (or long-con). Changing laws about presidential reelection is next. And then he may die next term, but the Pope-killer will take over his reins.
We could only be so lucky. In reality it'll probably be Steven Miller.
Oompa loompa Trumpty Do, Donny is an idiot who flunked out of school. He is only know because of his daddy's millions which he squandered like a stupid fool. Then one day television came to play. Donny sitting in his dirty run down office like a loser all day. They reinvented him as a successful business man, but the truth is he is a cuck with no fucking plan. Now this poser sits in the highest office of our land, shitting his pants and tweeting all day.
It sounds like he thinks the word "tariff" just means "payment". Then he follows that with "[whoever he thinks should make the payment]". Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don't know how else you can make it make sense.
he makes it sound like the manufacturers pay the tarriff so his moron supporters think it's a good idea.
All to try and flood the treasury so he can afford tax cuts he promised to donors.
Turns out running the government is hard and it sucks.
If Apple is the importer of record for its products, then it does incur and pay the tariff to the U.S. government. But obviously that gets passed along to consumers as no company will simply eat the cost.
you fucking idiot, it's NEVER EVER EVER coming to the US.
NEVER.
a 25% increase in cost is still MUCH more preferable to bringing all of that shit to the US. probably by orders of magnitude. can you even fathom (of course you can't) what you would need to do to have a 100% American iphone?
let's say you're bringing the iphone manufacturing plant to the US. let's even assume this move is subsidized so the new factory is going to cost only time.
the iphone isn't put together from mere atoms. parts of it need to be manufactured first. there's the screen, the glass, the aluminum case, several cameras, the battery, the ram, the storage, the CPU, the GPU, the receiver, accelerometer, gyroscope, etc etc... how much of that shit do you think is made in the USA?
so there's tariffs an all of that. or to avoid them you need to make several new factories, and have other companies that provide these things also move their factories... and these factories don't just have people create electronics by hand. you need machines. where do you think those are made? who makes them? so now you need the manufacturers of manufacturing robots to move their factories to the US.
and all these factories now employ people with much higher salaries.
all in all, a move like that would halt production for years and when it comes back every iphone would probably cost $47000.
It's because Donald can't envisage the supply chain for anything more complex than a Trump flag or a MAGA hat.
In his mind, housewives can be knocking iPhones out in Bumfuck, Mississippi.
Fun you should bring up his merch because literally all of it is Chinese or Indian produced.
Excuse me, sir. There is no town in Mississippi called "Bumfuck". That town is firmly within the boundaries of Iowa.
Mississippi would never stoop to the level of Iowa in having Bumfuck, Iowa. Mississippi is more elegant in its nomenclature. Thus, if you wish to make a point about a town in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, please respect Mississippi by referring to such a town as Cousin-Hump, Mississippi. Thank you.
I drove all over that state looking for Bumfuck and never found it. Pretty ornery bunch, too...
If that.. I imagine they were white label products so not even those taught him anything
Based on the numbers from Purism, it could be a lot more than 25% more expensive to manufacture everything in USA. Purims Librem 5 costs 799 $, while the made-in-America version costs 1999 $. That's roughly a 2.5x difference. Obviously, economies of scale play a role too but let's assume that the same factor applies to iPhones too. If so, the fanciest iPhone would cost about 4000 $.
John Oliver did a segment on this about a month ago, but yeah, you just nailed it.
damn it's been a while since I've watched him. it's just all been current events lately and even though I'm keeping up with the news, i couldn't watch him because the way his show covers things usually make things much more depressing. I've instead been venting here and shit. I'm gonna have to catch up though eventually, it's still very informative.
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Bro really went off on him…
THIS IS WHY TARIFFS NEVER WORK. In the long term tariffs actually encourage manufacturing to leave the country charging tariffs, not move manufacturing there. It’s much cheaper to pay the tariffs once, on the final product, than to pay the tariffs on every part that is required moving back and forth across an “imaginary line” (border in Trump-speak).
None of Trump’s tariff bolstering hurts Apple at all. They are a global company and can easily adjust around the asinine policies of America for a few years. Americans will get sick of paying a minimum of 25% more for EVERYTHING, while the rest of the world continues on as if nothing happened. Eventually Americans will see that the rest of the world has all the nice things and they’ve become a self imposed Soviet-era block country that has nothing and has to line up for toilet paper, and they’ll be right pissed. Until then, enjoy your delusion. 👏
tariffs could work if you're not the US. the problem is the US doesn't make anything.
for normal countries you could use tariffs to encourage products made inside the country. but for that to haopen:
so for example if your country has a decent production of bananas but people for some reason prefer to buy imported bananas way more than homemade ones, you might have some tariffs on bananas to try and reduce waste.
for that to be effective, you can't also have tariffs on soil, farming equipment and whatnot that might be going into your homemade potato production. otherwise you'd have homemade potatoes more expensive then imported ones.
That McGee book is pretty startling. $55B USD per year for how many years to develop plant and expertise in China over the past decade or two and that's going to be reversed how exactly?
I mean, if the US can swing it, good for them, but it's a bit like asking parents to produce Usain Bolt immediately or pay 25% higher income tax.
Most of the Iphone is not Chinese, the screens are made by Samsung in Korea, and the chips are from Taiwan. Only the fiddly final assembly is done in China.
But he wants it all American. Not just non-Chinese.
this is not about china
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.
He's actually cooking apple pies. Or is it called baking? Is it Tim Bake?
I want to elect Pine for the next CEO
What the hell is with the "Thank you for your attention to this matter?"
You're shitposting to a global media audience, not politely asking Facilities to restock the vending machine with Snickers bars.
Are you just in full Business Guy Autocomplete mode? A Bigly Language Model?
That bothers me too. It's the business equivalent of " do what I say. I don't want to have to help. Go fuck yourself"
Thank your*
iPhone’s
He's been doing it a lot lately, it's so absurd...
Maybe he secretly died and they are using grok to write his tweets.
Surely Grok would make a better president and be more human and intelligent?
Grok wouldn't fuck up the spelling so badly
Facilities doesn't stock the machines, the machine company does it itself or contracts a third party.
“Rock over London, Rock on Chicago”
Who is Tim Cook of Apple? Why does it sound like Trump is talking about Tim Apple?
Thats hilarious as usual when it comes to Trump. :)
And the tone... I expect... The president for a few months, who has been in jail and is full of lies, expects someone, which he doesnt know by the right name, to comply with arbitrary rules...
What a guy.
Tim “Cook of” Apple
Can you imagine if Joe Biden said shit like "I'm going to make your pleb shit more expensive because I refuse to just admit a mistake and therefore will double down on my bad policy."
Lol Biden is the type of person who would order a burger, then the retaurant brings him a salad and then he's like *🤷♂️ well I guess I'm having a salad, I can't confront people, norms and traditions*
And it would be amazing to still have the senile cancerous old man over the demented lying sack of shit. But regardless pointing out the sycophantic double standards of his nasty idiotic supporters and theur never ending bad faith is a good reminder that western democracy has been deathly wounded by the corrupt elite and the intellectually lazy populace.
Given recent revelations, more like he'd just assume that's what he ordered and eat it.
It's coming true.
And again "tariff must be paid by Apple" really shows that he still has no idea how they work.
Made in India + 25% tariff is still cheaper than made in Murica.
That BS is just for media.
Tbf the labor will be done by the minorities and undesirables they will keep throwing in prison without due process
I bet Tim Apple is really happy about his large donation to the Trump inauguration.
Then again, if you're that rich, maybe having some intelligence and foresight should be an expectation. If you don't have those things, maybe you shouldn't be rich.
That said, for a 25% tariff, it isn't even close. Still far cheaper for Apple to manufacture outside of the US and pass that additional cost to the US consumer.
Tim Apple wipes his ass with million dollar bills.
It is, perhaps, the only thing he touches that is made in the USA.
Killing Biden's CHIPs act certainly didn't help that cause.
He will kill and reinstate it to sell it as his own doing.
Obviously guided by his counselers and consultants.
Oh, like NAFTA!
Problem is that it had bidens sign on it, so he was forced to kill it without even taking care of its contents
No he wasn't. It's just because of his his pride and idiocy that he thinks he was.
Thanks God he clarified he's talking about Tim Cook of Apple, for a moment I thought he was speaking about my neighbor from downstairs.
Tim Apple the cook
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
But, but, but... I thought the foreign governments paid the tariffs? /s just in case
This is what you get for bending down to the tyrant in inauguration day. You cant appease tyrants, you must fight them.
All those hours spent on that tiny screw game is finally going to pay off!
tiny screw game
how do you know what I call sex?
Everyone talks about it behind your back. Sorry.
You can know the impact of what building in the US would be by looking at Purism. They sell a Linux phone for $800. If you want the same phone built in the US, they charge $2000.
It really depends on what Trump means by " built in the US". It won't be that big of a jump if Apple is just assembling them there. If every component has to come from the US it's likely impossible.
Apple is vertically integrated in a way many companies are not. It would be bad for them for sure but they already have really high profit margins. They could eat the cost and assemble in the US, but they won't because they are already a velban good.
Good fuck apple they probably donated to trump
They did, or at least Tim Cook did.
Will the US factories have suicide nets too, or is that reserved for Taiwan?
Nah in the US they just let them die
That would be healthcare. So, no.
I thought the nets were in the PRC.
Such smol govment
iPhones not iPhone's... Who let this idiot be in charge of anybody? Did he even go to school?
& Just that entire sentence is atrociously bad
Thank your for your attention to this matter!€
LMFAO it's the entire fucking tweet!! Thank your for your... omg you are the president of the united states get grammarly or something...you sound even dumber than the people who voted for you...
Can someone calculate how much an iPhone would cost if manufactured in the USA?
$3,500 according to one estimate.
With more automation wouldn't it possibly cost less than this? On Taiwan the balance between automation and human labor is due to their costs of labor and automation.
In any case more expensive than on Taiwan, though.
If US cost of labor drops sharply due to a few bubbles exploding, or a few nukes explode somewhere causing harm to world economy, then having such plants already in place might be retrospectively considered a wise decision.
Consumer hardware is now being used in wars on scale, changing all balances. So I think everybody is going to do what Trump is doing. Keep complex processes inside if they have the knowledge and ability, and try to gain knowledge and ability if they don't.
I don't think it's bad. Socialists will finally see a situation which their ideology fits best. Industrial specialties, even worker-level ones, teach people to think in a way making idiotic websites in some modern framework doesn't.
All that, of course, is sometime after the hellish hell we're going to see making us work to achieve it.
Not much. It's basically just the cost of adding a "Made in USA" sticker to the box.
Pay massive bribe to Dirty Donny, put sticker on.
Apple spent millions per year in fines for decades just because Steve Jobs didn’t want illuminated fire exit signs polluting the decor of his Apple stores. Their cash reserves exceed $150bn. They won’t do anything they don’t want to do.
An extra 25% must be paid by consumers. Like every other tariff. New taxes be like that.
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.
'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!
In British slang if you fart we sometimes say you Trump, or Trumpet. Can we refer to Trumps posts and speeches as Trumpets?
I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It's bad enough that the names coincide; please don't make it worse 😭
Well, on Mastodon they are already called “toots”, which is kind of American slang for a fart anyway. So ya, switching to calling them “Trumps” is not far off…
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.
Coming this fall: the new iPhone Republican edition (iPhone RE)
-cheaper construction and materials, yet somehow features a higher price tag -tons of backdoors (this time, intentional) -only connects to approved propaganda sites -reports all biometric data to the GOP -zaps you whenever it detects a thought the party dislikes -integrates with neurolink (not optional, you sick deviant)
camera moves to the right. Plus, you cant swipe left anymore and only swipe right
iPhone XR
Xitter [R-Slur] Edition
Or
Xenophobic Recession Edition
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
Don't buy Apple. Problem solved. I will not accept arguments about 'but the eco-system blah-blah'
Sticks Fingers in ears lalalalalala
We can always respond with our money and not buy an iPhone
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.
Good news on the latter front, actually: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-expands-investments-in-the-u-s-to-usd165-billion-with-new-fabs-and-r-and-d-center-a-closer-look
Tim Apple could just buy him a fucking plane and be done with it. And that would open up some interesting opportunities, nahmean?
It’s what I’d do if I were an ambitious, resource hoarding, ass pimple billionaire.
It’s obvious the way to Trump’s heart is to tell him he’s pretty and give him something .
Yeah make him a custom iPhone with a unibody out of pure gold?
Trump on his way to make Android phones more popular (they're not as highly tariffed)
Why isn't Samsung or Motorola highly tariffed? It's the same, right?
Apple is more or less getting individually tariffed because stupid.
We need to keep in mind that businesses like Apple are already charging the most they think customers are willing to pay.
Tariffs will hurt their bottom line by causing them to lose more in sales than they can make up for by raising unit prices.
that's the plan
Tribute's goin' up, lads! Better shake them coffers empty, the Lord of Great Murika demands more mmmmoneyyyy!
The more I think about it doesn't trump just want to raise taxes without explicitly raising taxes.
*Raise taxes on poor people. The billionaires can easily just fly to Europe for a shopping spree attached to their regular weekend jaunt and bring everything home in their luggage (if they cared about the prices of anything to begin with, that is).
Do it to everyone, I dare you. Nerds get heated. Please it will end sooner for him.
i feel like there are many nerds that voted for him
More like didn’t vote at all
That’s just the loudest voices, not the majority.
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.
infighting in america. im lovin it!
When the USA has no more industry, education, science, healthcare or employment and its people are dying younger and younger from preventable diseases it chose not to prevent, thousands of homeless pox-ridden Americans can watch Trump's military parade destroy the streets of Washington DC and know that America is great again, before they are rounded up and sent to the camps. But at least they'll have food there.
infighting will lead to outfighting, you won't be lovin that.
Failed business man telling people how to run their businesses. I’ve got an idea about how to make American manufacturing cheaper universal healthcare.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank your for your
I oppose tariffs, but I'm also somewhat indifferent to the fortunes of Apple.
"Trump says..." A load of fucking bollocks, to be frank. You can rest assured what he says is the opposite of reality. He's a pathological liar.
He did say he would fuck his daughter if she weren't his daughter.
Which part is the lie? That he wouldn't fuck his daughter if she weren't his daughter or that he would fuck his daughter if she were his daughter?
Not even sure at this point if he can bring himself to say a single true thing.
Looks like Apple is balking at paying the required bribe.
Is this another pump 'n dump (or rather dump 'n buy a shitload and then change your mind again so the stock rises to the original level)?
What a fucking idiot
This is actually a real socialist or even communist policy. The State controlling the businesses.
It is authoritarian. Communist system devolve to authoritarianism because it is a natural progression (easy to do). Socialists can, but a good democratic political structure makes it harder.
Apparently capitalist systems devolve into authoritarianism; as evidenced by living in 2025.
Don't tell all the tankies.
you know how trolls respond in games or everywhere online? Exactly like this. Did Don forget to breath while writing that run-on sentence?
The goal is fine but that isn’t anywhere near enough to force production into the US
Unless it’s like American rockets that are made in China, and assembled in the US so they can throw a sticker on it
Apple should just not sell them in the US then.
Profiteers foregoing the largest source of profit? Not likely.
Finally something Lemmy users can get behind since they hate Apple so much.
Thank you very much Tim Apple
here we go again with he tariffs. his friends made back some money after the last crash he caused so now he can go back to crashing it
They didn’t make “back” money, they’re just making money. His friends are the ones telling him to say insane shit that drives the market (or specific targeted stocks like Apple) down, then they buy while it’s low. After a few days/weeks, he changes his mind/can’t enforce his nonsense and the stock goes back up, his friends sell and have nothing but profit. The majority of the shit he does is market manipulation to benefit himself and anyone riding his coattails.
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Who does he think he's talking to?
His subordinates, who else?
Krasnov fails to realize the shareholders hold the power to decide manufacturing sites.
Tarriffs are an articulable cost that can be direclt passed on to the consumer. Income taxes would be something more manageable and the company would need to figure out what to pay. But, Republicans increasing taxes on their donors? Ha!
How long ago?