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‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe
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Because they can't. It well hurt they're GDP and citizens. No more phones no more laptops. The world is to reliant on the US and it's companies.
The only thing it would truly affect is Apple; Samsung could offer de-googled phones in the blink of an eye.
Hell, we don't even make the cellphones or laptops here. China has its own stuff. If a single one of the hardware manufacturers dedicated a couple of months to an open source driver project, we could have Linux phones by EOY.
A lot of the technology inside a phone is still dependent on US patents and/or manufactured parts. It may seem like one country makes this or that, but that's not actually how it works. If you look online you'll see the lowest number is around 40 countries for an iPhone.
I feel like if the US can ignore the sovereignty of Denmark, the founding principles of NATO and pretty much the entirety of international law, the rest of us shouldn't really stress too much about US patents TBH.
US what now? We're not making any parts. We are, at best, assembling some things; Tealistically, we're just fucking boxing shit these days. And patents? Once you're in an actual trade war, who in the hell cares about a country's IP claims?
You can get a black market iphone in China, not once piece has to pass through the US, the tricky part is getting the apple store and apps if they decide to blacklist your serial number.
China has entered the convo