Boycott Amazon, Target, Meta, Tesla, X, Space-X, Starlink, Home Depot, the rich/famous. Participate in any or all Work Stops as you can.
During all Work Stops please assist the elderly, volunteer at shelters, donate to local food banks. Organize local gardens and barter systems.
#BuildtheResistance
Not in the apple Mafia
But I bought the new Google Pixel whatever they are (asinine priced) 5 months ago when he was elected bc he promised he was doing this. That will hopefully last me this administration
Lmao. I still use my iPhone11 and keep avoiding doing updates on the software… trying to cheat the system in making my now “ancient” model obsolete. it’s all just a money grab! They need us to consume! consume! consume! Meanwhile we can’t even get decent groceries for an affordable price to SURVIVE!
Does that also mean you're boycotting Google/Android since they kissed the orange felon ass? Sandar was at his inauguration and paid the heft million as well.
Excellent. However, you’ll want to download an app called Camera Assistant so that you can change a camera setting. They factory set it so the camera prefers speed over focus; you want to change that setting in CA to “Prioritize focus over speed.”
Check videos on YouTube to improve other settings.
My kids love Iphones and watches. Told them the ones they have now is it! I know Apple products are overpriced and no way in hell will I be paying over $900.00 for a watch or 4K for a cell. 104% tariffs on China is going to cause hyperinflation. Watch as a lof of companies stop doing business here.
My parents lived through the depression. (The one in '32.) I have to buy food from my social security until this is over. I will be buying very little for a LOOONG time.
I don't know but maybe Apple could decide to stop paying taxes in America and pay them instead to Europe for a change. Since they've been doing the opposite without consequences for 20 years.
Wow. Not very often that you can bring in a Flash Gordon reference into a debate and make it a relevant talking point. Excellent job! You win the internet today!!
I read that Apple did not cave to Trump. They certainly weren’t invited to front row seats at the inauguration. Do you have a source? However, I do believe Apple will raise their prices on current supply in order to moderate future price increases.
Unfortunately a mass revolt in the USA will not occur now, seeing as how the most important thing to Americans (iphones) will not be in short supply anytime soon.
My gut feeling is that even though the phones were shipped in before the new tariffs, they will be sold at much higher prices anyway, perhaps even at the full tariff prices.
Of course they will. Every electronic under the sun will. And they say he isn't doing this intentionally?
The rich bought up stocks while they're down, Trump lifts tariffs 90 days, stocks rise and items sell like hot cakes, then he does it again in 90 days.
We upgraded 3 yesterday. They were all at least 5 years old & had been thinking about it for a while. We didn’t want to be trapped by higher prices down the road.
Hope so. I’m an Apple fanboy. But I also recognize many working people and retirees have Apple in their stock portfolios. So Apple’s stock health translates their part to a healthier economy. For everyone.
In December we replaced all our appliances — even the ones that were still working fine. (Just in case they broke down during this administration.) And our new vehicle just got here Sunday. We’re only spending on necessities now.
Perfect, a crazy president creating economic havoc and a wealthy corporation skirting insane policies.
Meanwhile….the citizens are screwed coming and going.
Replaced our iPhones and an iPad on Sunday. They were too old and at risk of failing at the worst of times. Not going to pay more of Trump’s import taxes than forced to by absolute necessity. That Apple store was busy from the moment it opened. The talk was all about beating the tariffs.
Oh, they Will. Bet. They Don't care...they have aided in creating a dependent to electronics population...isn't the obsession a new mental health diagnosis already...
If they keep up the software aging “updates,” apple sales will plummet and people will have to abandon their now useless older iphones and move to other brands.
Businesses are trying to slow roll the inevitable Trumpflation so as to not lose customers, and to maintain employment levels in their companies. It will not last.
My kid is hitting college in the fall and plan had been to get them a macbook like their sibling. Went ahead and ordered it today since those prices are gonna go up if this goes on for any length of time.
Some people are talking about switching from American designed phones and even getting off Android if it's possible.🤷🏻♂️
There's apparently a 3rd party OS which can work with the android app store.
Else most likely the world Markets will speak & a suitably powerful third player will arrive to the game🤷🏻♂️
Right? Even if people don't want to boycott them we're gonna be priced out.
This means room in the market for a new competitor who can quite probably undercut them with a similar quality product.
This is the Free Market and Capitalism & if the GOP don't like it shall we have USSR Communism instead?😆
I would not be a happy investor having too much in Apple. Too much China risk. The bigger they are the faster the fall. Those Trumpanzees in Apple must be cursing the day they voted for Trump.
Why would any buy an overpriced iPhone that is basically BSD Unix from the 1960's with a slick wrapper and UI. Apple is the king of the rip off artist. They know how how to make it cheap and sexy and sell it at unbelievable and undeserved profits.
Not to sound conspiracy theorist but, those phones have a way of helping keep misinformation spreading- they need us all having access to them in a way, don’t they? Human behavior manipulators in a sense 🤷🏻♀️
I think this is acting loooong before it became public knowledge…in the same vein as the “Liberation Day” windfall all the short-selling billionaires are enjoying 🤬
I think they prepared for the uncertainty, in that they weren't putting stock on slow moving ships but kept it at a warehouse. But they decided to air freight once it was known that the tariffs were bad. Trump had been threatening tariffs since before the election.
They knew tariffs would be coming in but not how high or when. It takes at least 2 weeks port-to-port to ship, plus loading and travel to port. You don't want to have a load in transit when the tariffs come in. So they've probably held off shipping.
If you've ever seen the movie: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (dumb movie but good visual of this situation).
They're all in these lines & they know the superficial reason.
They know what they are there to get, but why do they need it so badly?
Yes. 8 months ago an uninsured drunk driver totalled my 2007 Camry. Thank God. I would have driven that thing till it died, probably after tariffs made a new car's cost probitive. I use everything to death, buy when I must & pocket the rest. No debt at all. I'm not trying to make the rich richer.
People just have to be patient, as soon as someone figures out how to smuggle a lot of these products into our country, a lot of them will be available on the black market. Maybe even at lower prices than they are now. (This is just speculation) Just saying. 👁️
During covid companies made obscene profits and when covid opened up they raised prices even more. Small businesses took the brunt of the collapsed. Corporation profits soared.
A horrific massacre is now taking place in the Shujaiya neighborhood, where I live, after the Israeli occupation bombed a residential square with a fire belt. There are a large number of victims, most of whom are women and children
Let's see, when Apple get off its large butt, and move their operations to a sane country (where they won't have to deal with the daily servings of bullshit.) I'm gonna predict, Australia (English speaking), or China (proximity to manufacturing)
I bought my new Samsung ultra 25 in Jan even tho my other phone was a 25..bcz I knew he was doing tariffs.
LOL and a new vacuum cleaner too.
That arse is a menace
I know many have no other choice, but to depend on a smart phone, but maybe it will be all for the better if we all stop giving these companies so much access to our data, cameras, and microphones. #BackToTheBrick
It would be cheaper to fly over there have a nice weekend. Buy the phone and come home.
Black Market Drug Cartels just got a whole new line of business.
Why?
I’m reluctantly going to shop around when my iPhone is beyond its useful life. I think there needs to be an alternative platform to apple and google. US services might be subject to hostile retaliation in this trade war and it would be nice as a European to have a safe third choice.
Omg no, what if the planes are filled with new designs and their different cords - so we have to buy all that to keep his pockets padded during this tough time for the billionaires.
We just upgraded from 12s to 16s to avoid getting hit with The Felon’s sales tax. Paid a little to break the contract but was worth it to avoid getting slammed by the idiot in chief’s Agnorance and stupidity.
Tim Apple will soon have to smuggle iPhones across the remote Maine Canada border. While MAGA is assembling widgets, the migrants can be making border runs with full backpacks. This must be what they meant by Make America Great Again.
Apple: We did it to get around the nasty tariffs that are coming. Of course, we are still going to pretend on this one and pass the tariff cost onto you.
Trump is fostering an era of in white collar corruption with his “government for sale” policies. This is for the benefit of the man at the top, not the citizens.
Guess who's stocked up on pens and paper. This bitch fixing to become a #penpal to people if my phone breaks bc I will not spend 3k on a fucking brick.
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I will pause it for 4 years.
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Working for Trump was NEVER a good paying job.
But I bought the new Google Pixel whatever they are (asinine priced) 5 months ago when he was elected bc he promised he was doing this. That will hopefully last me this administration
Not many phone options after this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/01/20/billionaires-worth-a-combined-12-trillion-attended-trumps-inauguration-heres-who-was-there-from-musk-to-bezos/
Phone vs Food?
Check videos on YouTube to improve other settings.
Make America Drug-free Again! 🙈
The opening scene of Ming's Court in the 1980's Flash Gordon springs to mind. Everyone bowing and paying Ming a tribute.
I keep my phones for yrs
Iphone 11 is fine
I buy off swappa
Used phones
Quid-Pro-Pedo-Quo is the SOP for the gov now.
The rich bought up stocks while they're down, Trump lifts tariffs 90 days, stocks rise and items sell like hot cakes, then he does it again in 90 days.
Trunt 0
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/china-slams-us-with-84-tariff-after-new-wave-of-trump-levies-live-updates/ar-AA1CAJe7?ocid=BingNewsSerp
In December we replaced all our appliances — even the ones that were still working fine. (Just in case they broke down during this administration.) And our new vehicle just got here Sunday. We’re only spending on necessities now.
Some experts say if they bring the plants to the USA to make them they could cost 2900% more!
"the price of a single iPhone could hit the $30,000 to $100,000 range"
https://www.uniladtech.com/apple/iphone-prices-tariffs-america-127706-20250407
No they are not.
https://chinalaborwatch.org/investigation-of-an-apple-supplier-chengdu-foxconn-report-in-2023/
They simply need to fly cargo planes in like its Vietnam to avoid it!
1) Apple is on my boycott list.
2) iPhones are crap compared to Android.
Meanwhile….the citizens are screwed coming and going.
That electric brick has ruined good conversations.
If you actually call someone its like you invaded their life.
Texts only....
Sad.
Eff Tim Cook.
There's apparently a 3rd party OS which can work with the android app store.
Else most likely the world Markets will speak & a suitably powerful third player will arrive to the game🤷🏻♂️
This means room in the market for a new competitor who can quite probably undercut them with a similar quality product.
This is the Free Market and Capitalism & if the GOP don't like it shall we have USSR Communism instead?😆
https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957
I'll take a galaxy over the that high priced device.
Status symbols can eat shit.
Oh Karotine, you ain't seen nothing yet! I'd rather be the party of crazy than the party of disillusionment and sadistic psycho bitches!
Seems like a big hole in the customs system
No tariffs
We have to get over the skyrocketing cost of luxuries and figure out how we're gonna eat and pay for auto insurance and shoes.
If you've ever seen the movie: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (dumb movie but good visual of this situation).
They're all in these lines & they know the superficial reason.
They know what they are there to get, but why do they need it so badly?
I use everything to death, too. I think it was instilled in me early- on because my siblings are the same way.
I'd rather set my own head on fire and put it out with an axe than to own an IPhone.
https://gofund.me/510eb780
We are so screwed
LOL and a new vacuum cleaner too.
That arse is a menace
Black Market Drug Cartels just got a whole new line of business.
Why?
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
Olde joke
Get a Galaxy and use it for 5 years. It will still be better than the newest iPhone at that time 😐