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Trump Cuts Most Tariffs to 10% but Increases Tariffs on China to 125%
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, which is apparently how the worldâs financial markets now run: Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the...
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Apple Is Hustling to Fly Planes of iPhones Into the U.S. Ahead of Trumpâs Tariffs
Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: According to senior Indian officials cited in the report, Apple flew five planes full of iPhones and other products from India and China âin just...
Democracy
My sincere thanks to The Ole Independence Hall Hooligans for sponsoring this past week at DF to promote democracy. Thatâs it. A real sponsorship, real money, raised by a group...
The Spectacle of Incompetence
David Remnick, in a fine short piece for The New Yorker on Signalgate: This is an Administration that does not have to slip on a Signal banana peel to reveal...
Millions Attend âHands Offâ Protests Across U.S.âââand Europeâââto Oppose Trumpâs Agenda
Terrific photos and summary coverage from The Guardian. Additional coverage from The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. Update: The Atlantic has a great collection of photos from dozens...
The WSJ Estimates the Effect of Trumpâs Tariffs on the iPhone
Joanna Stern, Adrienne Tong, and Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+): Take a look at this iPhone 16 Pro. Your cost, for the 256GB version, is $1,100....
The Pricing Stability of the iMac
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In his piece, Gruber particularly calls out the trashcan Mac Pro sticking at $2999 throughout its existence, but I think an even more striking...
Perhaps the E.U. Took Mercy on Apple and Meta (and Investors) This Week
Barbara Moens and Henry Foy, reporting from Brussels for the Financial Times last Friday, March 28: The EU is set to impose minimal fines on Apple and Facebook owner Meta...
Tim Sweeneyâs Praise for Microsoft
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, yesterday: Thanks to Microsoft for 50 years of being awesome to developers! Some years the software was great. Some years the software sucked. Every year the...
Microsoftâs 50th Birthday Was Interrupted, Twice, by Employees Protesting Against Israel
Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Microsoft held a special 50th anniversary event at its headquarters earlier today. During Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleymanâs presentation, a Microsoft employee interrupted the...
The Truth Is, These Are Not Very Bright Guys
Susan Glasser, writing for The New Yorker, âDonald Trumpâs Ego Melts the Global Economyâ: In this new political moment of the unthinkable made manifest, the sheer power rush for Trump...
Trump Claims to Extend TikTok Deadline for Another 75 Days
CNBC: President Donald Trump on Friday extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. operations of TikTok or face an effective ban in the country, marking the second...
âFlounderingâ
From that same Reuters report by Akash Sriram that I just wrote about, speculating that iPhone prices might rise dramatically under Trumpâs tariffs: However, other analysts noted that iPhone sales...
â Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable ObjectâââWired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs
The erratic, illogical, nonsensical nature of Trumpâs tariffs is bad for everyone. (Understatement.) But itâs particularly troublesome for a company that sees retail price stability as part of the branding...
Why Trumpâs Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
Mike Isaac, writing for The New York Times: Apple, Dell, Oracleâââwhich rely on hardware and global supply chains that are in the direct line of fire from tariffsâ...
Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Tariff Concerns
Emma Roth, The Verge: Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trumpâs newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge...
Apple Cash Switched From Discover to Visa in 2022
Allison McDaniel, writing for 9to5Mac back in 2022: Apple Cash is a virtual debit card where you can send and receive money through iMessage. Stored in your Wallet, you can...
Costco Only Accepts Visa Credit Cards
I observed yesterday that, in general, Visa and Mastercard credit cards are both accepted at the same locations. The most notable exception is Costco, which, as part of the deal...
Bill Gates on the Creation of Microsoft, and the Source Code for Its First Product
Bill Gates, commemorating Microsoftâs 50th anniversary: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a magazine. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an...