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phone-ui-guy said:

How long before Ireland is going to be out of the EU due to Brexit? If they get out of the EU before this is settled, Ireland will just drop it.

After Brexit and decisions like this effecting Ireland tax laws, they may-well decide to leave. EU has been slowly eroding individual country rights and this would be another example of why Brexit has happened and more are to come. Gets complicated when you realize that part of Ireland (North) is part of UK (Brexit) already, and its probably only a matter of time before South decides enough is enough with EU meddling and leaves as well.

hmurchison said:

Looks like a 13"  MBP is in the batter's box to replace my trusty 13" MBA.  

I'd consider the 15" but these refreshes won't be based on Kaby Lake processors so I'd rather keep the money in my pocket and perhaps upgrade to a 15" in a couple of years. 

I love love love the idea of a dynamic OLED strip and Touch ID support.  Hopefully developers and end users will have some great customizing functionality. 

5k display sounds great...not at $999.  I think the price premium for 5k vs 4k doesn't make sense.   

To drive 5k, those monitors will HAVE to have built in GPU's.. Just no way around that. The TB3 / DP spec's don't support 5k at all; much less the timing chip required.. The only way that is possible, right now, is the custom chip timing chip they used in the 5k iMac itself, which requires the GPU to be there.. This will be an interesting release.

cnocbui said:

williamh said:

Duh, all of us dummies thought Apple was there just as a humanitarian gesture. No. Some of us question whether Apple is actually getting the benefit they sought. If the deals they made are going to be broken by the EU, if Apple is treated like a tax cheat and made to pay billions they did not owe, then one may reasonably question whether their presence in Ireland makes sense. 

It appears Apple and the Irish government did a deal that was in breach of EU law.  What would happen in the US if a state did a deal with a company and  told them they could ignore a federal law and dump toxic waste, or something similar?   Would the federal government say; 'you guys did a deal and now thousands of US citizens are dying from cancer from polluted groundwater, no sweat, that's cool since you did a deal.'?  Is that how it would go down?

No, They didn't do an illegal deal.. EU is contending it's illegal NOW because laws were 'unfair' and are retro-actively saying they can punish companies for using the law as it stands. This basically tells me you can't even trust following the existing laws, because they will just say they didn't like them and backstab you anyway.

Research a little more, their contention is VERY thin and largely Apple did, in-fact, follow the law. It's not like EU will see any of that money, It's all Taxes that goto Ireland ANYWAY. They just want to push Apple out of Ireland and get Apples business in other countries in the EU.

The EU has been doing regular audits of Apple since the 1990's and approved their tax methods every single time. Thats whats galling. IMO, you don't like your laws, change them, fine.. Whatever they get changed to companies like Apple will follow them. But this is more of a linching to 'drive' companies like Apple OUT of Ireland because Germany and a few other countries what them to move their instead.

How do you do that, you make them villains, and drum up tax evasion ..

nolamacguy said:

they'll only do this if there's a compelling reason to. 

Exactly.. it's likely only something on the drawing board, like hundreds of other idea's. Until it's out, it's not even rumor, just speculation.

volcan said:

cali said:

Good and %1 Mac users sounds way too generous. 

Well according to Wikipedia even less use Chrome OS, 0.38%. Not sure what Google's strategy is here. Perhaps Chrome apps are just a major fail.

Which confuses me to no end.. how can they claim 'massive adaption' in schools with Chrome Books that use Chrome OS, and be at such a low number? Somethings fishy with the stats. I've yet to see a Chromebook in the wild myself. I see them sitting lonely in Best Buy on a table with absolutely no one looking at them.