$3,500 iPhones?

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Anonymous wrote:It is long past time to do away with 529’s and students loans. You do not need a college degree to work in a factory.

Frankly, a lot of jobs including high tech where I work, do not need as many degreed professionals either. Even some jobs in health and other industries. We do need high school diplomas to be symbolic of people achieving certain standards. Some kids have been robbed of education because they’ve been promoted without attaining reading and math standards.

Maybe the adults in red states should prioritize their schools and kids education. Lord knows blues states throw enough money at them.

2025: West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kentucky, Alabama, New Mexico, Texas, and Indiana rank among the least educated states in the U.S. These states struggle with lower educational attainment, lower graduation rates, fewer students in top universities, and lower scores on standardized tests.

Prioritizing what? Brainwashing and ideological conditioning. Sorry, that gets a student no where in the workforce.

While you were "fundamentally transforming" America, the rest of the world was educating their students in useful skills, science, mathematics, their language and history, and NOT in grievance politics.

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Anonymous wrote:3500 is gonna be a bargain

Americans are going to act like Argentineans: traveling to Mexico or Canada to buy cheaper products and bringing it in their suitcases, avoiding customs

I wouldn't try that in this current environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Wired reports that iPhones could cost $3500 if Trump forces the parts to be made here.

But maybe he will follow through on his plan to stick Americans into a prison in El Salvador and then force them all to make phones for free? /s

Hope this loser president goes away.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/tech/apple-iphones-cost-tariffs-impact-intl-hnk/index.html

My Samsung Galaxy is still running strong after being purchased for $480 in 2018. Anyone purchasing a $1,200 Apple product that needs to be replaced every three years is a complete idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:For all others, there's Android.

Is that made in the US? Because it will get expensive too.

I went to Target and bought a cheap burner phone. I may go a buy a couple more.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans have had a good life for a long time, they had no idea how good it was because majority don’t travel and can’t compare. They are about to find out soon.

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Some of you are just dying for this to happen, aren’t you.

DP. What an idiotic response. We are being told all the time how America gave Trump a mandate to do all of this. It's happening whether we want it to or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump and the Republicans will enforce wage controls as part of the planned economy. Have to keep wages down in order to produce cheap iPhones and tshirts in Trump’s new factories.

Lots of people will be forced to report to the new factories for work. Work will set you free. No more white collar job for you or your children only communism.

Eh, they aren't going to go this far. What they are going to do is engage in union busting the likes of which you've never seen. You'll note that when all these right wingers talk about all the beautiful manufacturing coming back to America never once do they acknowledge that all those long ago manufacturing jobs sustained families because of unions or mention anything about unions at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans have had a good life for a long time, they had no idea how good it was because majority don’t travel and can’t compare. They are about to find out soon.

Can you imagine if just one day in his life, Trump woke up and tried to make things better for Americans instead of looking for brand new ways to make everything so much worse.

Heck, when did the GOP Party wake up at any time over the last 125 years and decide to work for the American people, not their biggest donors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is long past time to do away with 529’s and students loans. You do not need a college degree to work in a factory.

Frankly, a lot of jobs including high tech where I work, do not need as many degreed professionals either. Even some jobs in health and other industries. We do need high school diplomas to be symbolic of people achieving certain standards. Some kids have been robbed of education because they’ve been promoted without attaining reading and math standards.

Maybe the adults in red states should prioritize their schools and kids education. Lord knows blues states throw enough money at them.

2025: West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kentucky, Alabama, New Mexico, Texas, and Indiana rank among the least educated states in the U.S. These states struggle with lower educational attainment, lower graduation rates, fewer students in top universities, and lower scores on standardized tests.

My examples were the Baltimore girl who got accepted to the Airforce Academy ans then was ejected the first year because she clearly hadn’t gotten the education she needed. ROBBED. And then a few years ago, there were the kids at Ballou HS in DC. Awful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can finally all agree that Elon Musk hasn’t helped the environment at all. Manufacturing 3 ton single occupancy vehicles with massive batteries and rate earth metals just to relocate emissions from the tailpipe to the power plant. Just massively destructive to the environment and the climate. Democrats couldn’t grok this until Elon became a political enemy, but now they understand it quite well.

There’s the issue with the mining metals for EV batteries and other electronics devices.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, PP is a fool. Manufacturing new cars is far worse for the environment than running old cars

No it is not. Do some research maga.

OMG. You cannot be serious.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe $3500 iPhones are good - it will drive competition and make people think before upgrading to a new phone every year which is a disaster for the environment. We love our cheap stuff but has anyone really sat down and thought about whether it actually is good or bad in the long run?

Tariffs or no, the bolded has been an issue for me for a long time. Being environmentally conscious means nothing if we are dumping our tech devices so frequently. We buy the best products we can afford at the time and hold on to them for a long time. My car is old (20+ years), but has 120k miles, good mileage for a gas powered vehicle (32 mpg on highway, 27mpg locally), and still passes emissions and safety inspections with flying colors. Debatable whether recycling it and other cars every five years is better than holding onto this vehicle. Similar on electronic devices.

Not happy about tariffs but if it gets people to be more environmentally responsible, they will have some positive effect.

Driving 20 year old car is not good for the environment.

A 20 year old car was built in 2005. It has essentially the same pollution controls and engine efficiency as a car made yesterday. You have zero clue WTH you’re babbling about.

Yeah, I don't see how swapping my Impreza for Tesla is going to move the needle on the environment, especially considering I have either bike commuted or WFH for the past ten years. Let's ding on all those small car drivers that don't own EVs, because they are so hurting the environment. Never mind those SUV driving liberal soccer moms, you can go sit out on the 495 and watch them speed by. Get outta' my way, it's game time.

[Anonymous]

Maybe parents will stop giving their 10 yr olds and teens iPhones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 2023, iPhone makers in China's Foxconn Zhengzhou factory earned an average of 26 yuan ($3.6) per hour. This translates to approximately $400 to $800 per month, or $4,800 to $9,600 per year. While some reports indicate base salaries around 2,200 yuan ($324) per month, this doesn't include overtime, bonuses, or benefits. Foxconn also recruited additional workers and offered higher wages, including a three-month full-time bonus of 8,000 yuan.

Who will work these jobs? Will maga? Will we be forced in to these low wage jobs by Trump and the Republicans police state to work in a government control factories?

If you're not in a coastal city in China, living expenses are unbelievably low, in part because the standard of living is not anywhere close to US consumption levels and energy use levels.

People take these jobs because it's preferable to farming and village life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:iPhone users have 43% higher salaries than Android users

I prefer less locked down phones, if I wanted flaunt cash it wouldn't be on something with payments that the aspirational rich can afford.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump and the Republicans will enforce wage controls as part of the planned economy. Have to keep wages down in order to produce cheap iPhones and tshirts in Trump’s new factories.

Lots of people will be forced to report to the new factories for work. Work will set you free. No more white collar job for you or your children only communism.

This is not communism, it's fascism. Please learn the difference.

Both of which are authoritarian