{"id":934291,"date":"2025-05-28T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=934291"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:23:59","slug":"trumps-bluster-on-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/28\/trumps-bluster-on-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s bluster on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated threats to Apple, the latest being levying a 25% duty on iPhones assembled in India if they are sold in the US, seems set to remain on paper as it\u2019s unlikely that the company will stop ramping up production in the country. The economics simply doesn\u2019t support such a reversal. India has become too critical, cost-effective, and strategically valuable for Apple to backtrack, no matter the political pressure. At the heart of Apple\u2019s India strategy is an unambiguous cost advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated threats to Apple, the latest being levying a 25% duty on iPhones assembled in India if they are sold in the US, seems set to remain on paper as it\u2019s unlikely that the company will stop ramping up production in the country. The economics simply doesn\u2019t support such a reversal. India has become too critical, cost-effective, and strategically valuable for Apple to backtrack, no matter the political pressure. At the heart of Apple\u2019s India strategy is an unambiguous cost advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}