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  • EU antitrust bill could force Apple to make sweeping changes to Siri, App Store & More

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    applesauce007 said:
    This will never happen.
    Apple would be better off leaving all EU countries.
    Sure understand the sentiments behind such a statement but you do realise that apple would never ever even consider it? Right? You do know that the European market is larger than the US market in most metrics? Yes?
    sphericwunderfitz

  • EU antitrust bill could force Apple to make sweeping changes to Siri, App Store & More

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    9secondkox2 said:
    The world is going crazy in record time. 

    You’d think governing authorities would commend those who stand up for clean, responsible privacy and security protections. It’s actually difficult to make money while doing that. Yet here is apple actually succeeding on all fronts. That is to be commended. You HELP companies like not. Not HINDER them. 

    All this does is expose the corruption in the EU. 
    You are confusing a company’s technical standards and expertise with their accounting department’s dodgy practices. 

    Have you ever seen a technical person be an expert in tax avoidance practices or even plain accounting??? Like finding a pink elephant….
    muthuk_vanalingamwunderfitz

  • EU antitrust bill could force Apple to make sweeping changes to Siri, App Store & More

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    freeassociate2 said:
    zebratrain said:
    Cool. The pressure is on. Maybe apple will now contemplate paying its fair share in taxes to European countries it operates in to make this bill more palatable. When you steal from the hand that feeds you time after time again something like this was inevitable and it makes perfect sense that google and amazon are next.
    Orrrrrr …. Just an idea … maybe get your member states to fix their tax laws and stop screwing each other over?
    Intent here is everything. There is no question that it takes two to tango but the one leading the dance is apple/google/amazon/samsung. Their intent is to cheat full stop. 

    Their actions are clear but somehow their are those who think: “wow thats how to make money, well one day I’ll do the same so this method better still be available to me then” or “well the stock will go up and I’ll make a bunch” Some might call you a hypocrite. I do not I could call you an enabler, a sympathiser, an accomplice. I don’t. My choice of words is to call you ‘willing fools’. Their is historical context to this you could look it up.
    wunderfitz

  • EU antitrust bill could force Apple to make sweeping changes to Siri, App Store & More

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    urahara said:
    Cool. The pressure is on. Maybe apple will now contemplate paying its fair share in taxes to European countries it operates in to make this bill more palatable. When you steal from the hand that feeds you time after time again something like this was inevitable and it makes perfect sense that google and amazon are next.
    Do you mean that EU wants to steal from Apple which feeds EU?
    EU has the thing that apple needs: customers with the cash and access to financial instruments to purchase and keep purchasing their products. But the EU gets a rotten deal because digital services are taxed elsewhere if at all and way bellow actual value. Apple has been very naughty (polite way of saying that they are stealing) and refused to pay fair taxes. 

    I think this is a shakedown. Pay us what you owe or else thing. What is disconcerting is that the EU has fallen to the level of the likes of apple/google/samsung to get what it wants.

    That is ridiculous. Apple does not dictate the amount of taxes they pay. If Apple is paying a low tax then it’s because a certain country offered that low tax but Apple is certainly not demanding anything.

    They went looking for a way to pay cheaper taxes. Like seriously digging around to find and lubricate the relationships that would allow them to do that legally.  Same as what they have been doing in the US for much longer. These are syndromes of corruption and perhaps you and ‘Davidw’ applaud such practices for your personal short term gain but for some reason cannot see how this might turn out in our detriment, including yours.  Anyway, I do believe this is a shakedown and hope it succeeds.

    crowley

  • EU antitrust bill could force Apple to make sweeping changes to Siri, App Store & More

    zebratrainzebratrain
    urahara said:
    zebratrain said:
    Cool. The pressure is on. Maybe apple will now contemplate paying its fair share in taxes to European countries it operates in to make this bill more palatable. When you steal from the hand that feeds you time after time again something like this was inevitable and it makes perfect sense that google and amazon are next.
    Do you mean that EU wants to steal from Apple which feeds EU?
    EU has the thing that apple needs: customers with the cash and access to financial instruments to purchase and keep purchasing their products. But the EU gets a rotten deal because digital services are taxed elsewhere if at all and way bellow actual value. Apple has been very naughty (polite way of saying that they are stealing) and refused to pay fair taxes. 

    I think this is a shakedown. Pay us what you owe or else thing. What is disconcerting is that the EU has fallen to the level of the likes of apple/google/samsung to get what it wants.

    mpw_amherst