So I lived in Lebanon during their economic crisis a few years back, this is exactly what happened, certain stores with ties to powerful “political sects” were fully stocked selling all kinds of electronics duty and tariff free, basically the same price as what it was sold for before tax in the USA. Cash only, no warranties. Of course everything was 30-40% cheaper than their customers. Wonder how they got 'em.
They’re not really a thing anymore. Saudi is dumping money trying to expand their tourism and tech industry and that means paying a ton of foreigners to go there
AI is not like a storage disk. if something more efficient came out tomorrow everyone would just scale up training and costs would just go up again