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Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America

Allan said:
If I remember this situation correctly even Apple cannot access encrypted data on an iPhone. There is no "back door" key to unlock an iPhone.
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There is.....ask iPhone users in the Middle East about that..
 
ALiberalModerate said:
Remember when Republicans were for a free market with as little government interference into the private sector as possible?
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Yea...I was not born yet and JFK was no elected president yet.
 
multivita-man said:
How is moving iPhone production to the United States going to bring back those blue collar jobs in the Rust Belt? Also, you might want to on-shore rare earth manufacturing/processing before you actually bring home iPhone and other high-tech manufacturing, since you can't have the technical components made without first processing the raw materials.
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We don't have the labor force either trained or available to replace what China has building iPhones either. Just replacing Foxconn domestically would take years. Undoing globalization isn't something that happens quickly. Tooks years to create it. It will take years to undo it. Decades even.
 
PeteEU said:
There is.....ask iPhone users in the Middle East about that..
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Is there a link to provide details? Apple uses 256-bit AES which is pretty robust.

The FBI complaint was not that Apple wouldn't break encryption (because they understand that even Apple can't) but that Apple wouldn't create software that would give investigators a back door.
 
 
Leftists once again proving that if Trump came out in favor of breathing they would be dead inside of 4 minutes. Rather comical watching the same people that shit themselves over Elon Musk, banks, corporate greed, etc. now shit themselves over a tariff on an American company manufacturing cheap goods outside of the US, selling them for massive profits in the US and paying dirt cheap labor to boot.
 
VanceMack said:
Leftists once again proving that if Trump came out in favor of breathing they would be dead inside of 4 minutes. Rather comical watching the same people that shit themselves over Elon Musk, banks, corporate greed, etc. now shit themselves over a tariff on an American company manufacturing cheap goods outside of the US, selling them for massive profits in the US and paying dirt cheap labor to boot.
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VanceMack said:
an American company manufacturing cheap goods outside of the US, selling them for massive profits in the US and paying dirt cheap labor to boot.
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That strategy has made Apple one of the most successful corporations in history. Apple and companies like it have made America the richest country in history.
 
VanceMack said:
Leftists once again proving that if Trump came out in favor of breathing they would be dead inside of 4 minutes. Rather comical watching the same people that shit themselves over Elon Musk, banks, corporate greed, etc. now shit themselves over a tariff on an American company manufacturing cheap goods outside of the US, selling them for massive profits in the US and paying dirt cheap labor to boot.
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you once again are proving you can make stupid posts.

explain why what trump is proposing makes sense.
 
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Allan said:
Is there a link to provide details? Apple uses 256-bit AES which is pretty robust.

The FBI complaint was not that Apple wouldn't break encryption (because they understand that even Apple can't) but that Apple wouldn't create software that would give investigators a back door.
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Yea.. that complaint was years ago.. odd that they are still not bitching about it eh?

Google NSO group.....
 
Cope said:
I said that months ago. He has some inkling of an idea of what he wanted, but absolutely no idea how to get it done, correctly.
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He's a child picking at unhealed scabs so much that he risks serious infection.
 
multivita-man said:
How is moving iPhone production to the United States going to bring back those blue collar jobs in the Rust Belt? Also, you might want to on-shore rare earth manufacturing/processing before you actually bring home iPhone and other high-tech manufacturing, since you can't have the technical components made without first processing the raw materials.
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The blue collar job apparently is either screwing in tiny screws or watching over the robots that we will need for that. :eye roll:
 
ALiberalModerate said:
Remember when Republicans were for a free market with as little government interference into the private sector as possible?
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You have to stop listening to what Republicans say their principles are, as there is virtually no correlation to the actions they then support.
 
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the bond market didn't like the big beautiful bill so I guess this is trump's way to "fix" that, by proposing stupidity to tank the stock market and drive more interest in bonds?
 
Variant said:
You have to stop listening to what Republicans say their principles are, as there is virtually no correlation to the actions they then support.
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Or Democrats. Very few politicians do what they say and support.
 
ncguy said:
the bond market didn't like the big beautiful bill so I guess this is trump's way to "fix" that, by proposing stupidity to tank the stock market and drive more interest in bonds?
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The DJIA is unimpressed this morning as it's down -351.
 
ncguy said:
the bond market didn't like the big beautiful bill so I guess this is trump's way to "fix" that, by proposing stupidity to tank the stock market and drive more interest in bonds?
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There is no real way for Trump to help the bond market. It is based on people's aggregate faith in the stability and fiscal sanity of the United States.
 
Allan said:
The DJIA is unimpressed this morning as it's down -351.
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exactly. now people wont be worried as much about the bond market. its "genius". tank both bond AND stock markets!
 
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