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From a friend I have at Apple, they ship new iPhones in planes for every new release to deal with the order surge. Plane cabins stacked floor to ceiling with phones. An insane quantity of phones.
So this is why they’re all in Airplane mode when they’re brand new? TIL
Crazy fact: it was only 12 days worth of iPhones. Meaning all of these phones will be sold within 12 days.
How does it avoid tariffs?
By arriving before the tariffs do
Apple also has a bunch of seats bought and paid for for every flight going to China.
So if someone from Apple has to get there quickly to handle a production issue, they can just go on the next flight. No need to reserve a seat.
sounds fake but if not it’s hilariously evil towards environment
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932487/apple-united-airlines-sfo-terminal-upgrades
It’s true and reported by actual journalists. It was just United, not all flights.
Among Apple’s highest expenditures as part of its United contract include 50 business class seats from San Francisco to Shanghai daily, a figure United printed on a sign and mistakenly placed in public viewing at SFO early this year.
They let you do it if you’re rich.
I decided to check out an MBP. Normally I can customize it and they give me a delivery estimate of about a week. Currently I can’t customize it at all and delivery estimate is overnight. Literally what’s in stock is all there is and then no more.
They’re waiting for the storm to pass, it’s still 10% now
As of today, it’s 145% on Chinese imports.
Shortly after the Budget Lab’s original publication, the White House clarified that the 125% China tariffs were on top of, not inclusive of, the 20% IEEPA tariffs already in place, making the maximum rate on Chinese imports 145%. This report revises our numbers to reflect the clarified policy.
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-and-economic-effects-revised-april-9-tariffs
