Trump Meets With Apple's Tim Cook To Talk Trade (reuters.com) 33
New submitter genfail shares a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday to discuss trade issues as the technology industry grapples with a U.S. spat over import tariffs with China, a manufacturing hub for the iPhone maker and other companies. Apple, the world's largest technology company, and other hardware makers have deep ties with China, where many of their products are built for export around the world. Cook urged an easing of U.S.-China tensions and called for more open trade after the trade dispute flared last month between the world's two largest economies. Trump announced about $50 billion in planned tariffs on certain Chinese imports, China retaliated with proposed tariffs on some American goods and Trump responded that the United States could counter with $100 billion in additional levies. U.S. and Chinese officials have been working to resolve the dispute.
Re:We'll make Mexico pay for the trade war (Score:4, Insightful)
Someone over a year ago on Microsoft NBC said something along the lines that "we take what Trump says too seriously and what he does not seriously enough." Sounds like you're in that category. He's much more careful with his actions than his mouth.
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For a Democrat, only words matter, never actions or facts.
This is why they still think Obama is the greatest president ever, and really deserved that Nobel Peace Prize.
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For I g people to support their self is not slavery! Wtf is wrong with people.. Gimme gimme gimme is all that matters now a days nobody wants to work to better their self they just want free shit.
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Forcing*
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You mean his alleged administration is more careful about their actions. Trump has the attention span of gnat.
Will Trump help Cook (Score:4, Funny)
make Apple great again?
Or will Cook help Trump think different?
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It never pays to feed the troll. The best thing Cook can do is run the other way whenever Trump comes calling.
Prices are going up up up .... (Score:1)
Ops, Apple cannot make iPhones without China anymore? Good bye Apple! ....
PC storage grown from $120 per unit up to $250
Video Cards grow from $60 up $400
High end Phones went up from $500 up to $1000
And so on, prices are growing and the reason is the Americans don't make anything with their hands anymore and China wants more money for their work
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Re:Well if we hope to detangle ourselves from trad (Score:4, Insightful)
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If my neighbor has a resource I don't have but trades me fairly for access to it, then war isn't in either of our best interests.
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Bullshit. The only reason the U.S. has the large economy it does is because of international trade.
American people get control of their country back? To return to what, the 1950s?
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Sell out (Score:1)
Like the rest of the tech industry all of Apples products are made outside of the US, primarily in the PRC
With the tax incentives for doing so and with the lure of slave labor in a country where retirement is measured in 9MM the wealthy were tripping over themselves to move operations out of the US.
This was very shrewd of the PRC as it tied American wealth to the fortunes of the CPC
So when the PRC is upset with something going on in the US government they talk to people like Cook and people like him