Report: Apple Stockpiled Hardware Ahead of Tariffs - MOSK: 04.08.2025

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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- ToI: Apple Stockpiled Hardware Ahead of Trump Tariffs - Bloomberg: Customers Rush to Buy iPhones Ahead of Possible Price Hikes - Apple Sets Next Earning Report for 1 May - WSJ: Apple Plans to Bring More iPhones from India to Escape Worst of Tariffs - Apple Said to be Eyeing Brazil for greater iPhone Production - Parts of UK’s Secret iCloud Trial Apparently Won’t Be Secret - Apple TV+ Outs Trailer for Second Season of “WondLa” - A look at VPNs in the Wake of the App Store's Chinese Military VPNs on Checklist No. 418 - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.9	Stock files of Apple hardware are rushed to raid those stock files.
0:14.0	And has anybody else got an iPhone factory?
0:17.4	It is Tuesday, the 8th of April 2025.
0:20.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:26.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by people like you.
0:31.6	Patrons through Patreon.
0:34.8	Find out more and than your support at patreon.com slash macOS can.
0:43.2	A crazy, not crazy story to start us from the subcontinent today. A piece from the Times of India
0:49.9	tells a flights full of iPhones and other Apple hardware pulled off quickly to beat the Trump administration tariffs.
0:57.7	Happening over the course of three days, the fee says urgent shipments were made during the final week of March
1:03.6	to avoid a new 10% reciprocal tariff imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration
1:09.3	that took effect on the 5th of April.
1:12.7	The report says the Cooper Tino Company pulled the same move with China.
1:17.0	One source says factories in both countries and other key locations had been shipping products to the U.S.
1:23.7	in anticipation of the higher tariffs.
1:27.9	Theoretically, that'll keep iPhone prices from rising near-term.
1:33.2	The same secret source tells Times of India,
1:36.0	the reserves that arrived at lower duty
1:38.0	will temporarily insulate the company from the higher prices
1:41.3	that it will need to pay for new shipments under the revised tax
1:45.3	rates. Apple's U.S. warehouses are reportedly stocked for several months ahead, according to the
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