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This touches on something I'm curious to see play out: How much shopping tourism will we see? If a laptop costs twice as much due to tariffs (as indicated by th
by ajmurmann 1y ago
This touches on something I'm curious to see play out: How much shopping tourism will we see? If a laptop costs twice as much due to tariffs (as indicated by the forecast in the article) how many US consumers will wait with buying a new laptop or phone till they happen to be in another country? I'm also curious if we'll see a huge spike in smuggling which might give more justification for more spending on border security.
- zeroonetwothree 1y agoObviously yes this will happen. Trade restrictions always results in more smuggling and black market activity.
- ajmurmann 1y agoOf course it will happen. I'm curious to what degree. Will 50% of US iPhone sales move abroad? Will smuggling of regular goods become a bigger deal than fentanyl smuggling?
- keyringlight 1y agoI'm interested to see how this affects Microsoft's messaging to some win10 users for "you need to buy a new PC to continue to be updated" while there's still a significant [0] amount of people to switch in 5-6 months. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...