srice

That dude went off the rails when he started talking about the lightning port durability. What is wrong with people?

Wow, thats some serious BS US Treasury.  So I guess hell will freeze over before AAPL brings its cash home -- cause they sure aren't doing to be double taxed on that money.  Bunch o' dummies.

"but claims that the new speakers deliver two times the volume of the iPhone 6s"

If this makes the speakerphone be able to be twice as loud, that's an awesome improvement. 

The EU has a VAT - value added tax system, where the taxes are allocated based on where the value to the product was added. 

They do not have a sales tax based system.

No value is added in the EU, they are just a consumer.  So the taxes should rightfully be applied upstream - either to the US, where the product was designed and developed, or in China where the product was built. (or Ireland where the R&D is performed *cough*). 

jamiel said:

In an all-glass design, couldn't the fingerprint scanner be moved to the back of the phone?

yuck