Tariffs Telegraphed for Apple and TSMC - MOSK: 01.29.2025

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

- Trump Signals Tariffs on Components and Pharmaceuticals Made in Taiwan - IDC: iPhone Tops in China Last Quarter, Third in 2024 - Georgia Tech Students Find Security Flaws in Recent Apple Hardware - App Store Connect App Updated to v2.1 - CVS Tests Crazy App-Based System to Unlock Locked Merchandise - MKBHD Is Turned On By Project Moohan - Apple TV+ Posts “Meditative” Walkthrough of “Silo” Sets - Season Four of "Mythic Quest" Starts on Apple TV+ - The importance of family passwords and more on the toll road smishing attempts on Checklist 408 - Family Passwords and Smishing, Revisited - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Chat with us in 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	Tariffs come for Apple and Taiwan.
0:11.4	A security flaw for recent Apple Hardware.
0:14.7	An Apple Vision Pro may have some serious competition.
0:18.9	It is Wednesday, the 29th of January 2025.
0:23.0	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:28.5	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by people like you.
0:33.9	Patrons through Patreon.
0:37.0	Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash macOS cam.
0:46.6	Proving that a million dollars doesn't go that far these days,
0:50.8	President Trump is called for tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals made in
0:56.8	Taiwan. According to a piece from Venture Beat, the impact of such tariffs could be huge. The
1:03.7	Consumer Technology Association, or CTA, the lobbying group for the U.S. electronics industry,
1:10.6	warned that tariffs could take the cost of game consoles
1:13.4	from the hundreds of dollars to a thousand bucks.
1:17.9	Not a gamer?
1:19.9	Well, that's okay.
1:21.9	The CTA indicates that the tariffs could increase prices on laptops and tablets
1:26.4	by 46% and smartphones by 26%.
1:31.3	The president took aim at the bipartisan-supported Chips and Science Act, which earmarked $52 billion in subsidies to incentivize the building of factories in the U.S.
1:43.7	Companies including analog devices, coherent, Intel, and TSM were benefiting from that program,
1:52.1	as were people looking for work.
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