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Wow... a lot of childish posts! Even more than we commonly find.

I won't hold my breath waiting people to act their age on the internet—or grow up at all. Here are my 2 cents:

1. Apple management has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profits. That includes avoiding taxes if (and when) possible. Only an uneducated child would see hypocrisy here. This is playing with big boy rules. Nothing more, nothing less.
2. Every CFO from a big company worth their salt know that tax schemes like "double Irish with a Dutch sandwich" won't last forever. Given time even glacial moving (more like impacted colon) major legislative bodies would address this issue to level the playing field. Loopholes like those are always uncertainties in the long run, and are potentially legal quagmires (like it had become). Stability and predictability are great market boosters, and consumer electronics are no exception.

So give us a break with comments like: "Apple should close shop on country A"; or "raise prices (as a punitive measure) on country B"; and finishing with "that'll show them!". Apple is a company managed by adults, not by Twitter trending hashtags.

In other words: Professors from renowned Universities are also quite capable of selling themselves.

Apple only fault is providing a feature that their most knowledgeable users have been clamoring for some years. Now one of the authors of this piece is supposedly a business professor. Imagine that, a company that delivers what their users wants, and give them control over it to boot! What a weird business practice... it's a wonder Apple has a loyal customer base.

Less ad money means that money will be spent in something more fruitful for the companies, like R&D. Better engineers, designers, developers, instead of more pubescent social media buffoons. Now, there is something to aim for.

AppleInsider said:

"A lot of impressive engineering went into making this thing as thin as possible, but did anyone really need a thinner all-in-one desktop? Apple's priorities continue to baffle," the site wrote.

Not really. Some of us have had to dig up space for a work station in corners or other odd places around our houses to work and study this past year. So yeah, a smaller footprint for a desktop computer does address a significant market.

But then again, I don't make a living criticizing Apple's work, nor praising it either. So my views could be skewed...

Are these business owners/founders children now? Now there is a market strategy in line with a Fortune 500 company: I'll take to the Internet and call the customers of the one—out of only two—mobile platforms and insult them to their face. That should help bringing more people over from WhatsApp...

Hey, Telegram founder, let me tell you this: if Apple hadn't "enslaved" their customers and made iMessage exclusive to Apple hardware, Telegram would never be.

IMHO the industry will learn that tracking wasn't boosting up ad engagement and value as much as they believe it did. I'm not religiously against ads, except when they are intrusive and/or are present in services that I do pay for (like some streaming services do). Those I can't stand. If I'm paying, I don't want any ads.