cogitodexter

This is lunacy.

And people used to complain about Biden being senile...

The EU already has a tax based on revenue. It's called VAT (Value Added Tax).

In addition, the European Commission does not have the right to raise taxes. That privilege is - for the time being - reserved to the sovereign treasuries of the EU member states.

This is a case of the EU massively overstepping its competencies and a Commission that, yet again, acts without any democratic mandate.

I'm very glad that the UK has voted to kick it to the kerb.

Dropped a few times is BS said:

Total BS I picked up a brand-new 6Plus 2 weeks ago and with in one day had screen Flickr.  Just went back this weekend and replaced it.   Apple will never own up for anything   It's now in thier culture 

If you're going to lie, at least make it convincing.

This would most likely only affect people who have 'cut the cord' and no longer receive broadcast signals via aerials, satellite or cable and thus think they don't need to pay the mandatory UK TV Licence fee. Since watching any form of live-broadcast TV, however it's delivered, including online, requires a TV licence, most of the people inconvenienced by this will likely not have much of a leg to stand on to complain.

auxio said:

I have no doubt that there's an endgame where him and his insiders get rich by tanking the economy, then buying up stocks and bankrupt companies at rock bottom. Everyone else just got conned.

I'd wager someone somewhere in his orbit was shorting Apple stock and just made a killing.

I have three Mac Pros. A 2008 one, a 2013 one (the cylindrical one) and a 2019 one. I can't afford an Apple Silicon 2023 one! The 2008 one lives on its side under my desk and is the perfect height to stand my laser printer on out of the way - I stopped using it years ago. The 2013 one works just fine (but it does have vast amounts of added RAM!) and the 2019 one is still going strong, although my daily driver these days is actually an M4 Mac mini with 24GB RAM and it knocks spots off the 2019 Mac Pro in daily usage (although I've had to add a 40Gbps thunderbolt external SSD storage box to it as native storage is a bit small for my needs). That shows just how far Apple has come with the move away from Intel.

Why, it's almost as if these people have never heard of the phrase "Prior Art". 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I am tired of Apple standing on the neck of the entire computer industry.

Inflammatory and insensitive much? Come on. You can make your point without trivialising and minimising very real human tragedies. You should be ashamed of yourself.

rob53 said:

The sad thing is that none of these people actually do the work necessary to make a billion dollars, they simply lead lots of vastly lower paid employees who are the real people who design and build the products these people get the credit for. Sorry Tim Cook, you haven't designed an Apple product and only got your job because Steve Jobs unfortunately died. Of course even Steve wasn't the one who designed the first Apple products, he was the great(est) salesman (not snake-oil salesman) in history.

Apple's market cap in October 2011 (when Steve Jobs passed away) was approximately $180 billion. It was $3000 billion at the end of last year - subsequently the US government tariff policies have knocked about 15-20% off that, but still... that's a pretty big increase and you certainly shouldn't be condemning Tim Cook for shepherding the company through to those giddy heights. I'd say he's done a stellar job.

Well this isn't going to trigger either the conspiracy fantasists or the 'fire Tim Cook' trolls at all, is it‽