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freerange said:

mdoss said:

Er... once connectivity has been established with the web interface using the QR code, there is no need to keep re-scanning the QR code for every successive session. It's purely a one time thing.

I am on an iPhone 5 with an iMac and run WhatsApp on both everyday. I only had to scan the QR code the first time I set up the web interface.

Second point, audio calling on WhatsApp has not been unreliable as the article seems to suggest. Call quality has always been excellent with crystal clear audio and no lag or echo of any kind.

Finally, for those of us concerned with Facebook's data mining, there's an equally good alternative - Telegram. Telegram tout security as their USP.

Unfortunately, as crofford said, until Apple decides to make iMessage cross-platform, WhatsApp is the way to go. The whole world uses WhatsApp.

The author makes a claim at the very end about iMessage being the more well-rounded robust solution. I am afraid my experience has been quite the opposite. It's WhatsApp that I believe is more well-rounded, sheerly in terms of ubiquity and working on practically every device out there; and more solid in terms of reliability. Again, that is just my experience. YMMV.

Cheers

"The whole world uses WhatsApp." Ummm, wrong! A significant part of the world is using a far superior service to WhatsApp - Wechat! WhatsApp is a total POS compared to WeChat. AI, let's get on the ball and compare these two third party apps. As to Wechat, best of all, it's not part of Facebook!

asdasd said:

singularity said:

Is that double taxation rules in the US or in Ireland? 
 As if in the hypothetical situation they lost the ruling but had moved the money to the US they would still be liable to pay back to Ireland regardless of anything they had paid to the US. Though they'd probably be due one hell of a rebate from the US government!

I don't think they would. If tax in the US is higher than Ireland, ( or the same) then Apple would owe no tax in Ireland. 

asdasd said:

Lots of people making up their own version of the law here. The EU is investigating illegal state aid. It's not illegal to have lower tax rates. You can be competitive against other EU countries. State aid is aiding one company internally at the expense of others. Until recently this was always taken to mean handouts but they have started to investigate lower internal tax breaks. Note that if Ireland had a corporation rate of 2% across all industries that would be legal under European law. 

If you are in breach you pay back the state aid. That means Apple pays Ireland. 

To to avoid this Apple could repatriate all worldwide revenues in the affected years to the US, which does claim those taxes are retrospectively owed, if it pays the US it doesn't owe Ireland. The US should use this potential ruling to give a tax holiday (exactly 12.5%) to all US companies. 

Be be a nice little earner, for president Trump. 

danvm said:

koop said:

I was laughing so hard when this happened and wondered if DED would make an article. Was not disappointed. 

Honestly they'd be better served with iPad Pros.

Since the problem was related to network, how the iPad Pro would have done better?