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Does this mean the other products they ship aren't hit with tariffs? Are they somehow wholly made in the US vs the ones that were dropped?
Edit: found my own answer:
"We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss."
There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it's a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.
Prices are absolutely going to go up. If you think you'll want to buy in the next year or two, do it now.
buy everything you need to stock up quickly. You can resell it for profit after tariffs hit. it is a good business opportunity.
Many buyers expect importers to stock up and sell them later for higher price anyway, why let Trump take the tariff tax money from Americans when you can take it for yourself.
Products from some countries hit with high tariffs can net you a lot of profits. You can use the money to send your children through college and help the hungry poor people everywhere in America during the upcoming depression. Trump would have just used that money on his miles long parade.
Yeah I'm not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don't NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.
Added: I probably should buy a new SSD if there are still some affordable ones out there. I could use it, will probably need it, and prices have been going up since even before the tariffs.
Apparently samsung made a lot of money due to the tariff and people stockpiling chips. https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/samsung-profits-rise-chip-stockpiling-before-trump-us-tariffs-125040800850_1.html
I keep wondering about aptera. They are just getting their production ready model going and I can't help but think if they don't have production to far setup in california they would be smarter to do it in ireland. The carbon fiber body comes from europe and the batteries from asia. So evern if they build it in the us it will suffer tariffs for like 2/3rds of the cost or higher and it will effect everything sold everywhere. If they built it in ireland then it would be way cheaper everywhere but the us and the us cost would not be all that much higher than it would be if they built it here. I assume anything else with such a diverse supply chain would be effected similarly. Like boeing vs airbus.
Don't worry, they don't have any plans of actually producing or selling anything.
Kinda skeptical myself. For anyone unaware, they tried to make an Aptera model several years ago before all the trade fuckery, and despite making waves and turning heads, they eventually had to call it quits due to lack of funding.
I hope they succeed this time, now that people want EVs, but my expectations of success are low.
I ordered one in 2021. Supposed to be delivered by EOY '22. EOY '22 they release a new prototype. No explanation was offered of why they didn't start deliveries. They've pushed back the production date many times since then they introduced like 3 more prototypes while fundamentally redesigning the entire vehicle, including the chassis and powertrain, at different times.
So yeah, I don't think they have any intention of being "successful", I think they're just an investment grift.
