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To: Swordmaker

Well, you can only do so much in a package that size. Apple is famous for their copying expertise. Their logistics and tax dodging is what keeps them in the game, not their software or new ideas.


6 posted on 06/17/2016 10:35:03 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You forgot the sarcasm tag.


8 posted on 06/17/2016 10:56:57 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Well, you can only do so much in a package that size. Apple is famous for their copying expertise. Their logistics and tax dodging is what keeps them in the game, not their software or new ideas.

Tax dodging? Apple's effective tax rate averages around 27.8%. Compare that to Microsoft's ~18% and Google/Alphabet's 11%, or Amazon's almost non-existent tax rate. As Apple's testimony before a Senate Investigatory committee proved, with its tax returns, in 2012, Apple paid more corporate taxes than any other US corporation and in fact paid $1 out of every $40 of US Corporate Income tax collected that year. It is very similar in other years. The money Apple is accused of "not paying taxes on" in Ireland is money they already OWN, their savings if you will, money they have already paid income taxes on in the jurisdictions where Apple earned it. Ireland merely has the lowest capital gains tax rate in the Western World and is considered a safe place to hold and invest one's holdings, a place where this funds are unlikely to be seized by the local government, yet one can safely invest them at a low tax rate. Low information people, apparently like you, think its about taxes not being paid on the EARNED income. It is not. They want taxes the holdings, an asset tax.

10 posted on 06/17/2016 11:05:29 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Now you’ve done it and wakened the I-toadies.


13 posted on 06/17/2016 11:38:05 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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