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Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat

timetraveller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’ve been saying for the past two years that Apple should stop doing business in the year, but every time that I bring that up someone points out the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out.

Gross.

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hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
EU is also the second largest economy after the US in the world. Vacating the region would cost way more than compliance.

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Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out

This has nothing to do with anything, really. It’s not like, because I don’t sell in the US I can’t use American made steel or something.

The actual reason why Apple, and every other company, doesn’t want to leave the EU (China for that matter) despite increasingly stringent regulations, it’s because the EU represents a huge portion of their revenue and leaving would mean losing billions upon billions, all in the hopes of saving millions.

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Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Apple doesn’t buy those machines, TSMC does. Apple buys the chips from them.

So I don’t think ASML being in the EU would stop apple from pulling out.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Why should Apple stop doing business in the EU that makes no sense. Why would they deliberately cut themselves off from a huge potential market.

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