Trump tariffs push top PC makers Lenovo, HP, and Dell toward Saudi Arabia | Techspot
Posted by uria046@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 25 comments
BlueGoliath@reddit
This is a "who actually read the article vs just the headline" check and some people have already failed.
nuked24@reddit
Did you read an entirely different article or something?
Strazdas1@reddit
The article says the move is due to Saudi Arabia giving them 2 billion to do this and not due tariffs.
balt14@reddit
All of these 3 companies only produce trash products, why would anyone care? Lenovo has some good high-end products but the rest is straight slop just like HP and Dell. I could care less if they leave tbh.
surf_greatriver_v4@reddit
Sour grapes
JuanElMinero@reddit
Had to look that one up. Learning new English idioms is always a treat.
Helpdesk_Guy@reddit
You're aware that these companies leaving, they'll took all the nice climate-controlled upper jobs in offices in the U.S. with them?
Dell currently employs a personnel of around 120,000 in the U.S., HP sports a personnel of around 58,0000 in the U.S., and I don't even know how much staff Lenovo has for their U.S. head-quarter in North Carolina … Intel is already about to mass-oust employees too!
Others do. Since contrary to public propaganda of U.S. media, picturing Lenovo as evil Chinese from Far East, Lenovo is actually one of the most sought-after employers in the U.S. in the computer-industry, especially in respect to personal opportunities in chances of advancement, quality of work, compensation and the company’s overall reputation … Funny, isn't it?
Looks that with your opinion, you're actually ploughing a far more lonely furrow, than you thought you were.
CSRWire.com: Lenovo named 2025 Dream Employer by Forbes
Logical-Database4510@reddit
puts up flame shield
Like I'm probably the furthest thing from a trumper to exist, just leading with that to avoid any confusion, fyi
That being said, it's worth pointing out that the average trumper doesn't care at all about the people you point out about the "nice, climate controlled upper jobs in offices". Those are the "libtards". These are the people the average trumper wants to hurt. If they lose their jobs because of this, the trumper is happy. They're the people the trumper is parking their truck nuts touting pickup next to the office of and laughing at as their nice, climate controlled office is shut down and they're crying as they pack their shit up and get fired. The trumper /despises/ these people. Part of the trumper's ideology, if you can call it that, is seeing these people suffer because to them they kept their jobs when the factory's left in the first place while the trumper's people starved. Now it's their turn to file unemployment while they beg for minimum wage call center job, so sayeth the trumper.
Politics are zero sum game to these people. The office worker with a college degree /are/ the enemy to them.
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/All of that also being said...../
Before you feel really that sorry for the office workers, it's worth remembering that the vast majority of them are the ones who sat out the election and just didn't vote because they viewed themselves and their lives as above the common political rancor. Surely the orange buffoon couldn't do anything to affect them, right?
Politics in the US is a shit show right now, to say the least 🤷♂️
SirActionhaHAA@reddit
Yea things that we can't get are bad /s
TheElectroPrince@reddit
When your supposedly "democratic" country fucks up so bad all the companies move to a theocratic nation.
BlueGoliath@reddit
China is democratic?
996forever@reddit
Believe it or not, they actually DO claim to be representatively democratic in some capacity.
Tiny-Sugar-8317@reddit
If you believe it you're an idiot.
katt2002@reddit
China's democracy
https://youtube.com/shorts/ODeJOERPZWA
They can claim the whole universe is their. /s
996forever@reddit
I don’t think the original comment in this chain was ever on about whether any claims of democracy are true or not. “Supposedly” was the exact choice of word.
katt2002@reddit
I see.
Apartheid_State@reddit
Hmm interesting. Never expected it to be Saudi Arabia
katt2002@reddit
If it's Saudi Arabia then Saudi Arabia it is. 10% reciprocal tariff aka "the privilege" isn't come from nothing, it's the part of the deal. You can use that "privilege" to become the "middle man" between high tariff countries and the US. Tariff isn't always/all about "bringing xx manufacturing to xx country" like most people think, this is how you do business. Hong Kong as the puppet city of China has been doing this for so long to facilitate everyone to evade tariffs/taxes.
Homerlncognito@reddit
That's not how it works, you have to become more than a middle man to avoid bulk of the tariffs.
JuanElMinero@reddit
SA's human rights record is pretty terrible, but that's usually not something businesses of that scale care about, as long as number go up some more.
It makes sense when you view it from the perspective of Lenovo 'scouting' there first a few months ago, either as planned market expansion or as a precaution for what could happen with the new administration.
If the other two OEMs are exploring there as well, seems that Lenovo has potentially had some kind of success.
SA lies inbetween multiple large markets, has none of those pesky EU-level worker rights and regulations, is generally politically stable and safe from invasion via being a US ally (and armed). Not too small of a country either.
Currently in the process of dumping money into all kinds of industries with varying degrees of success, since they are planning for a future with diminished oil profits. So, financial incentives could be in play as well.
JuanElMinero@reddit
Seems misleading to lump in Lenovo with the other two in a direct reaction to the tariffs.
They even quote their own article from Lenovo publicly announcing their move to SA >3 months ago, in a bid to gain broader access to Africa and ME markets.
To be fair, they probably don't regret that move one bit.
Wardious@reddit
Tariffs doesnt apply to computers.
Unlikely-Today-3501@reddit
Well, so much about tariffs, right?
djashjones@reddit
Stopped reading after "according to analysts".
paeschli@reddit
I love how the article starts with « SO MUCH WINNING »