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  • Rapidly-growing Apple Music tops 17 million subscribers

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    cali said:
    I was wondering if this article would come.

    What's your opinion on 17 million? Is it a hit to Spotify and do you think Spotify will fold soon?

    I think it's time for Apple to open Apple Music like the App Store and allow indie artists access. I also think Apple should become a record label and hire acts like Frank Ocean, Dr. Dre and others including indie artists who they can make stars in a matter of days.
    The last thing I'd want is for Apple to become a record label and further their attempt at making the music industry their monopoly. 
    singularitydasanman69

  • Apple 'AirPods' to target high end of headphone market with custom 'Bluetooth-like' low-power tech

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    So they're choosing yet another proprietary method... Sigh.
    lazytrap

  • Tim Cook responds to $14.5B EU tax bill with open letter, says decision will be reversed

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    sog35 said:
    adm1 said:
    Calling the move "unprecedented," Cook portrayed the Commission's decision as potentially dangerous, with "serious, wide-reaching implications." 

    EC previously ruled against Starbucks's tax deal in Holland and Fiat's tax deal in Luxembourg. Not unprecedented.

    "In Apple's case, nearly all of our research and development takes place in California, so the vast majority of our profits are taxed in the United States," he wrote. "European companies doing business in the U.S. are taxed according to the same principle. But the Commission is now calling to retroactively change those rules."

    There is no law that states you should only be taxed where your R&D offices are located. There ARE laws however that say you pay tax where you operate and sell products. On top of that, funnelling profits from those sales to other countries while not technically illegal, is morally questionable. Similar to those with offshore accounts (cayman islands, panama etc.) albeit nowhere near as shady.
    Are you joking? Starbucks/Fiat got slapped on the wrist. They were ordered to pay $20 million each. The $14 billion for Apple is the definition of unprecedented.

    It does not matter if the law is morally questionable in your opinion. It was the Irish tax law at that time. Apple did nothing wrong. They followed Irish tax law, and any other company operating in Ireland could have done the same. 

    Again the dispute isn't if Apple broke Irish tax law. They have not.
    The dispute is if Apple was given a DIFFERENT tax law they anyone else in Ireland.  And as far as I can tell they didn't. They were just better at tax planning than anyone else.
    It's all relative. $20 million to Starbucks was for how many years retroactively? And in comparison to the sheer size of Apple compared to Starbucks obviously the fee will be much less. 

    Prove that Apple wasn't given a different tax law, because from what I can tell paying 0.005% tax is well below what anyone else pays. 

    The diagram shown in this tweet is pretty accurate at describing what happened: 
    [Deleted User]indieshacksensisaltyzip

  • Tim Cook says AI & augmented reality are core technologies in Apple's future

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    tallest skil said:
    If anyone can do AR correctly, it’s Apple. I’d venture that they’re the only ones who could pull it off, if it is even possible.

    Then again…


    How do you figure they're the only ones who can pull it off? That's absolutely not true.
    doozydozencnocbui

  • iPhone sales volume drops, Apple's market share falls in growing India

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    maestro64 said:
    sog35 said:
    This is UTTER BULLSHIT.

    Go to the conference call transcripts to see these guys are LIARS.
    http://seekingalpha.com/article/3836826-apples-aapl-ceo-tim-cook-q1-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=4
    http://seekingalpha.com/article/3968300-apple-aapl-timothy-donald-cook-q2-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=2
    http://seekingalpha.com/article/3991811-apple-aapl-timothy-donald-cook-q3-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript


    Tim Cook made these statements with the threat of JAIL TIME if they were false or misleading. 

    Quarter ending Dec2015 (Q1) - Cook said iPhone sales in India were up 76% YoY
    Quarter ending Mar2016 (Q2) - Cook said iPhone sales in India were up 56% YoY
    For 3 Quarters ending June2016 (Q1-Q3) - Cook said iPhone sales in India were up 51% YoY

    I find it IMPOSSIBLE that iPhone sales were down 35% looking at those numbers above.

    This is just another example of how these companies like Stratgic Analytics spread total bullshit in order to please their customers (who are Apple competitors)


    It just means more crap was sold in India verses Apple's uptick in numbers, so yes Apple's YoY number went up, however, all the other cheap crap went up faster so they could be down when they are in fact up. It is the Statistic Game and the fact everyone makes up numbers. My prediction is Apple numbers will never be close their numbers in US, EU or China. The large majority of Indians will never spend the money for an Iphone. It is just a cultural difference, if you talk to these folks and try to understand why they buy a low cost android phone they can not explain the purchase decision other than saying the value to price is best. The problem is they do not understand what Value is. Most equate Value to price, and lower price has higher value. They are still check list buys like US consumers were back in the 80's and 90's.
    It's nice to see that some people are reasonable here rather than hyperbolic complaining whenever something doesn't go Apple's way. 


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