Ecky-Thump

Nicholas  Alkemade a Lancaster rear gunner in WW2 fell 28,000 feet without his parachute and received only a sprained leg, thanks mainly to fir trees and snow.

Tim Apple should have realised that donating to Trump only buys you access, not truth or favours.

The question is, is Trump acting the way he does because of some overall strategy, or does he just react on a day to day basis based on his unrivalled narcissism and state of mind from moment to moment?

Thank God for Trump.

As a foreigner I never released how downtrodden the richest country in the World with the richest companies and the richest billionaires actually was.

I can now truly say that the rest of the World is feeling really sorry for you all.

/s

Seems Tim Cook is much better at ducking taxes and making money out of money, than either releasing exciting new products or being able to provide a good supply of the products that Apple already produce. I hope next year will bring some real explosions rather than this years rather damp farts.

This is about (rightly or wrongly) Apple abusing its market dominance, you really can’t compare Apple to epic or Nintendo. 

shrave10 said:

Whitehouse is right here IMO.  Unless Epic, Nintendo, and third party app stores for iOS all reduce their own commissions to developers to zero as well, Pres. Trump has full right to raise EU tariffs to the amount to recover any illegal fines to US companies.  

It is not fair that all other platform vendors can charge a platform fee commission while Apple is not allowed to do same to recover costs of development, support, and marketing.  Core platform licensing fees can be negotiated to be on similar or even slightly lower than that of other platform vendors but it can not be zero.