China threatens to end iPhone sales if US imposes stiff tariffs

[Danbones]

Apple, a Trendsetter No More
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-11-15/apple-is-no-longer-a-tech-trendsetter
china figures they won't miss apple - its day is done

or china can't find any more tech to steal from them

 

[Bar Sinister]

You don't remember BC -before china?
There was a time before various crooked globalist governments offshored all those types of jobs.

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China knows politics has little to do with Apple's projected loss of commercial steam - why care about them when almost all apple products on amazon are fake
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Forbes Welcome

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[PoliticalNick]

Trading with China and so promoting more interdependence between us is the most effective way to promote change in China. Its growing middle class will become more vocal and demand more freedom.

Are you Chinese? If not why would you f*cking care about their middle class growing at the expense of the Canadian middle class? Sounds pretty traitorous to me.

 

[Danbones]

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about.

Yeah, I see that.
Again, you say you are a teacher, and yet you don't get how countries do business as politics at all...
especially China.

They have stolen all the tech they want to from apple, so they don't need to have them around anymore, and they would like to replace the competition with their hacked spy phones.
( ever study "The art of war"?...no, doesn't look like you have. China lives by it. )
Also, possibly they may make a pile short selling apple in the future as well.

Any political use of the decision as PR will be made use of, which is the subtle premise in the OP.
I put it to you because, in the past, you have used your claimed position, rather then citations, to justify a non comprehending opinion of the situation.

Used to be Chinese restaurants and convenience stores, were the main grass roots information gathering vector, but of course, the more modern hacking of the com network works a million times better.

The Chinese are very indoctrinated by the state and culture. Their middle class loyalties these days are not the same as the western middle class in that regard...
similar maybe, but still different.

 

[mentalfloss]

Are you Chinese? If not why would you f*cking care about their middle class growing at the expense of the Canadian middle class? Sounds pretty traitorous to me.

How did you pretzel that interpretation out of what he said?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

How did you pretzel that interpretation out of what he said?

It's easy if you see the world as a zero-sum game and spend your day in a defensive crouch snarling.

 

[mentalfloss]

Really makes me wonder if domestic problems are influencing their posts.

 

[Machjo]

Are you Chinese? If not why would you f*cking care about their middle class growing at the expense of the Canadian middle class? Sounds pretty traitorous to me.

Because I would like to see the world become a better place. You?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Because I would like to see the world become a better place. You?

Asked and answered, I'd say.

 

[mentalfloss]

Because I would like to see the world become a better place. You?

Keep it up.

You're one of the few good willed people on here.

 

[mentalfloss]

U.S. Workers to Lose in China Trade War
http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-s-workers-to-lose-in-china-trade-war-1479188319

 

[Machjo]

U.S. Workers to Lose in China Trade War
U.S. Workers to Lose in China Trade War - WSJ

Some might say that hurting the US economy is a small price to pay to hurt the Chinese one too.

 

[Johnnny]

Maybe if Apple made a battery that lasted for more than 10 seconds I'd probably be concerned.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

2 points:

1. Let the Chinese do without their iPhones. They should have a pretty good supply of Samsung Galaxy Note 7s to replace them with.
2. Given that most iPhones are manufactured in China, whom do you think such a move would hurt the most?

 

[mentalfloss]

The US because that's where the labour is cheapest.

 

[mentalfloss]

The Trump Tax


What an iPhone could cost in Trump’s America

Businesses and policymakers are bracing for what could happen under President-elect Donald Trump's trade agenda. Trump has promised to slap a tax on Chinese goods, possibly as high as 45 percent; he also has said that he will reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing by bringing it home. What would this mean for the goods we buy? To understand the impact of these proposals, let's look at how they'd affect one of the most popular companies on Earth: Apple.

Apple has operations all around the world. It sources components from as many as 28 countries, including the United States, but largely from China, where nearly half of its suppliers are located. IPhones and iPads are assembled there before being shipped to stores worldwide. In short, Apple benefits from a global supply chain that depends on low trade barriers and factories that are nestled relatively close to one another. When Trump talks about disrupting trade, this is the humming machine he's talking about.

Imposing a tariff on imports would mean increasing the cost for companies to bring goods to U.S. shores. To the extent they pass on those costs to consumers, that would result in increased prices. In the case of Apple, whose premium devices already cost a pretty penny, higher prices could drive some consumers to think twice about purchasing a new iPhone.

“If he institutes a 35-percent penal tariff on every export from China, then most of what you buy at Walmart is 35 percent more expensive,” said Roger Entner, a wireless analyst at Recon Analytics.

Other analysts say a tax of 35 percent or 45 percent may not automatically trigger prices that are 35 percent or 45 percent higher as companies could choose to eat the cost rather than passing it on to consumers. But either way, Trump's tariff probably could put Apple in a deeply uncomfortable position. It costs Apple $224.80 to manufacture an iPhone 7, according to the analysis firm IHS, and that doesn't include the cost of R&D, marketing and distribution. A federal markup of 45 percent could drive up that price by more than $100.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.../what-an-iphone-could-cost-in-trumps-america/