[ArtTimeInvestor]

    Companies can operate and make profit

Why make a profit? How is an Apple that gives billions of dollars to investors (many of them abroad) better for Trump than an Apple that gives those billions of dollars to the Government which he controls? Tariffs are one way to redirect those profits.

[jajko]

Apple has ~30% margin, so they will just increase prices. If real SHTF with sales (since iphone 16 has had lukewarm sales already and they have 0 new shocking transformative products), they can start chipping down that part, but its a long way to go to reach competition.

Who pays for all this, as always, is common people, getting poorer. More specifically middle class, poor don't buy money-making devices from ie Apple, and rich will either stay rich or get richer if positioned well.

[ArtTimeInvestor]

Why do their 30% margin make you predict they will increase prices? What if they had 3% margin?

[jajko]

Their stock would collapse, nobody in power there wants that.

[robocat]

> Apple that gives billions of dollars to investors (many of them abroad)

Yeah and much of the revenue comes from abroad too. You could at least try to show a balanced view

  the U.S. still counts for around 40 percent of Apple’s net sales