Indonesia blocks Google Pixel sales after ban on iPhone 16

&gt; The Indonesian rule requires tech companies to source 40% of handset and tablet components domestically, a requirement that can be met through local manufacturing, firmware development or direct investment in innovation projects<p>interesting. I wonder if the math is worth the investment.

In one hand, it is a short sighted protectionsm policy. but then, most of us Indoneasian cant afford it anyway. I am not sure which one make me more upset.

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Good on them. I encourage the freedom of protectionist policies because then in five years the average local will realize their government is dumb for doing it.

And what happens when every country does this?<p>This weakness in failing to consider second-order consequences that we see everywhere today is saddening.