Apple rapidly shipped five planeloads of iPhones and other products from India to the US in late March to avoid new tariffs, ensuring steady prices temporarily. This pre-tariff move helps delay global price revisions. Other exports like gems and jewellery also surged to capitalize before the tariffs took effect. March exports are estimated to surpass $800 billion.
    • Jesus@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      This is like a couple weeks of phones sales. Makes me think that the author is just speculating that this is tariff related. This might just be a normal shipment.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Using dumb LLMs, 5 plane loads is probably under 2million phones.

    Given the amount of phones Apple sells in the US, this is probably just another Tuesday for them. They sell 60m phones in the US each year.