If there's one silver lining to this, maybe it'll knock Windows 11 down a peg seeing as how Microsoft expects you to just buy a new PC if you don't meet their stupid requirements.
Was thinking about that. The whole hardware cycle needs a sanity check where phones, PCs, money of the annual "improvements" are now just software slop, AI slop or deck chair rearranging, or breaking things that used to work.
I know most of these companies have large logistics operations in other countries, for example Mexico.
Can/will they attempt to dodge the tariffs on China by redirecting shipments through some other country with lower tariffs on the product's way into the United States? Would it be legal for them to do so? (It seems to me that a tariff happy country might prefer to view that as undesirable behavior--would the Trump administration have any recourse against that sort of thing?)
I commented on this myself earlier. Doing the extra shipping and bare legal minimum to count as a transformative step to create a new product in some other country will increase the cost of the good relative to where it is today, so there's still an impact, but for virtually all products, it's going to be far less than the 145% increase that tariffs would impose on a directly-shipped-from-China product.
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If there's one silver lining to this, maybe it'll knock Windows 11 down a peg seeing as how Microsoft expects you to just buy a new PC if you don't meet their stupid requirements.
Was thinking about that. The whole hardware cycle needs a sanity check where phones, PCs, money of the annual "improvements" are now just software slop, AI slop or deck chair rearranging, or breaking things that used to work.
How apropos.
I know most of these companies have large logistics operations in other countries, for example Mexico.
Can/will they attempt to dodge the tariffs on China by redirecting shipments through some other country with lower tariffs on the product's way into the United States? Would it be legal for them to do so? (It seems to me that a tariff happy country might prefer to view that as undesirable behavior--would the Trump administration have any recourse against that sort of thing?)
No, that would not be legal. I don't know how they write the law exactly, but they account for that. Could be based on country of manufacture.
Yeah they ship "parts" to Mexico. 1 laptop frame unfinished 1 laptop battery.
Finish and Assemble them by cutting out one small section of waste aluminum off the frame and then putting the battery in.
Ship to the us.
"Manufactured in Mexico"
I commented on this myself earlier. Doing the extra shipping and bare legal minimum to count as a transformative step to create a new product in some other country will increase the cost of the good relative to where it is today, so there's still an impact, but for virtually all products, it's going to be far less than the 145% increase that tariffs would impose on a directly-shipped-from-China product.
It's only illegal if you're caught
Or haven't paid your monthly bribe.
Or if the Judges enforce anything
More likely they will move final assembly to Mexico or Canada.
Well fuck. I work at an MSP and we sell exclusively sell computers. 💀
Used market boom baby!