• conciselyverbose
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    7 hours ago

    “40 million potential phones” sounds like a lot, but it’s a lot less of a lot if you have to tank your entire supply chain to sell them.

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      6 hours ago

      Exactly, especially to placate a country with no electronics manufacturing industry to speak of. How would Apple even meet that 40% target, and how is that number defined? Is it by % of material cost, or size, or weight, or what?

      Blackmail is a terrible way to attract investment to your country. This is like Elon suing advertisers who left Twitter after he told them to fuck off.