We have a long way to reach the mountain top
But, as with any journey to any so-called “Promised Land,” it’s going to take time to get there, and no one presently at the top of the pile appears to have the capacity to travel in time or part the seas.
The big challenges Apple has put its money into solving are real barriers to the overall US manufacturing investment plan. That, presumably, is why the current administration appears to have accepted Apple’s point and given the company more time before imposing those huge but fluctuating tariffs that so threaten its business.
You can argue whether these moves represent compromise or capitulation, but those questions at present don’t seem to figure anywhere in US media, despite which the “athletic” form of Tim Cook, who rises at 5am most days to go to the gym, seems to have identified an arrangement that can easily be seen as victory.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
