this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
91 points (97.9% liked)
Technology
60073 readers
3765 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Absolutely ridiculous policy. Imagine if every country pulled this stunt.
One option would be for the big manufacturers to ignore the market and see if new players are able to thrive in such a market or not.
If the amount requested is too steep, they'll end up with no new players and a shortage of high end phones, which is sure to piss off a portion of the population.
Not every country has 280 million people. Roughly calculated, judging by income, around 15% can afford an iPhone, and that translates to 40 million potential phones. Let's see how Apple and Giigle will react.
"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.
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.