Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/19/trump-tim-cook-bffs.html
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Well I don’t like Tim Cook having dinner with a fascist but he’s right that the tariffs are stupid. Of course they’re not just stupid for Apple but for everyone else too
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It’s always seemed a little odd that the anti-tax right would be pro-tax (a tariff is a tax) on anything.
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Fuckin’ Peter Thiel.
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What’s with the headline? Seems more like the story itself is saying Cook made very compelling argument to drop tariffs.
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Apple is stupid. Samsung is good.
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Only a matter of time before Biff starts claiming he was against tarriffs the whole time. And his mouth-breathing supporters will believe him.
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Sending my thoughts and prayers to Apple Corp.
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"Most people don’t know this, but we have always been at war with East Asia. It’s hyuge. You know what? Nobody else could start a war with East Asia like I have.
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Compelling argument:
Trump, you are great. Tariffs hurt my business. Trump is great, and it would be great if Trump could help my business by removing tariffs. Trump is so great.
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What the heck? Samsung products are made in Korea? When they have right next door a repressive communist dictatorship with exploitable slave labor? Obviously THEY haven’t been listening to Tim Cook.
Tariffs against South Korea in 3, 2, 1…
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Did Trump call him "Tim Waldorf Salad?’
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This is exactly what you would expect any CEO to do when a government tax will increase your component costs by 10%, but not your competitors.
This can’t be the first time this fact was relayed to trump, though - so, what, he just ignored it until now?
I’m betting the process went something like?
- Trump, initially: “Tarriffs! yes US companies will suffer, but then they’ll move production back to the US!”
- Tim Cook: “Hey so, we’re going to be hit with 10% tarriffs and there is no manufacturing capacity to move our product to the US, even in 5 years time. Meanwhile, Korean competitors would have a 10% cost advantage”
- Trump: “Hrm.”
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There’s also that thing where trump believes whoever he spoke to last. IM sure he’ll take it back after talking to dean hannity on the phone or watching some random talking head on fox today.
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Easy solution: have Samsung make Apple’s phones.
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the Apple CEO made a “very compelling argument” that Apple may lose its competitive edge to Samsung because of Trump’s tariffs on goods from China.
Trump (assuming he was able to think straight for a few seconds - which is assuming a lot, I know): hmmm, you don’t say. Mental note: call my east Asian stock exchange broker and buy more Samsung.
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moving production… if only was that simple
An Iphone has hundreds of components manufactured by dozens of companies all over the world with hugely complex logistics and supply chain management systems
The general population has no idea of what goes behind “just in time” manufacturing and how easy is to screw up a delivery if something goes slightly off the rails. They just get mad if amazon misses a promised delivery date.
The only ones that might have a chance to experience the consequences of mass disruption to established logistics are the british if Brexit goes sour, it could easily become a test bed and case study
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He lacks “object permanance.” I am always amused when people try to figure out what Trump’s secret agenda is…There’s no THERE in there. Just a yawning void seeking adulation, and the approval he never got as a kid. Largely because he was a terrible human being even then, who would throw rocks at a baby.
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Isn’t that what happened with the “national security” steel tariffs?
