[roadcat]

All the anti-Apple bigots were forecasting gloom and doom for Apple after the last quarter. They said Apple was going broke, and no one was going to buy their products from now on. Always so wrong, on so many counts. Apple may have problems and go down many many years from now. For the moment, still going strong.

Once President Trump takes charge, Apple can continue to flourish because other PC makers are almost completely overseas in China, or other Asian countries, while Apple has strong roots here with thousands of employees in the U.S.A. and much manufacturing. Apple can easily shift more manufacturing here; other PC companies would have to start from scratch once extra tariffs are put in place.

[RayChuang88]

Actually, one thing that could REALLY help Apple is that if Trump becomes President and makes good on the promises to improve the business climate for manufacuturing here in the USA, we could see the two major device assemblers for Apple--Foxconn and Pegatron--set up US manufacturing operations. And unlike the Chinese operation, it will be highly-automated assembly lines, something both Foxconn and Pegatron have already started to implement in a big way in China.