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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook declines Ireland committee invite, branded as 'snub to Irish people'

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    sdw2001 said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    Meh. The bill to repatriate those overseas billions will pass quickly after Trump takes office and many companies will take advantage of the 10% tax. If Ireland continues to buckle under and do the EU's bidding, they deserve to lose every single company that unwisely decided to locate there.
    Ageed.  And again, I really wish Apple would tell the EU and any grandstanding Irish politicians to go f**k themselves.  Government is ridiculous.  They can just decide that--SURPISE!--you owe 14.5 billion in taxes for the last however many years.  I say Apple just ignores the ruling.  What are they going to do? Raid their offices with the guns they don't carry?  Or, as you implied...Apple should call their bluff.  Highlight the jobs and revenue Apple brings and threaten to pull out if they don't back off.  
    ok, they employee a few people in Ireland.  But what revenue are you referring to?  Apple structures itself to pay as little tax in an area as possible
    GeorgeBMac

  • Apple lawsuit accuses Nokia of being at core of patent licensing conspiracy

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    cali said:
    Apple should just buy what's left of the company for half a milllion. Would save time and at the end both parties get what they want.

    Yeah that would make sense to sell a $28B company for half a million, I bet the shareholders are lining up for a deal like that
    singularity

  • Sony, Nokia proxy company awarded $3 million in latest round of patent battles with Apple

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    Herbivore2 said:
    Apple has sourced their digital cameras for the iPhone from Sony for a number of years. It's time to drop Sony as a component supplier. 

    Perhaps Sony is upset with Apple turning to LG Innotek for the iPhone camera. The image sensor, however, is still a Sony product. 

    Not much can be done about Nokia as they don't build any iPhone component(s).

    3 million is a blip compared to Apple's profits, but the infringement suit would seem pretty lame and without merit unless Apple did steal implementation process from Sony and/or Nokia. It's doubtful that this would be the case and I would expect Apple to prevail. 
    Sony owns a whole 5% of this organisation, they will received a whole $150k less the lawyers cut, I don't think they are in this for the money

    Nokia owns a whole 5% of this organisation.  Of course you will remember that Nokia owns a metric tonne of patents in the mobile arena, they are meant to be receiving 8 euro a phone from Apple for licencing payments.

    So for Nokia/Sony owning a combined 10%, why are you naming them, surely this is all MPEG-LA's doing?
    gatorguy

  • BitTorrent app Transmission once again source of macOS malware

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    Besides thieves who download music/movies, who else uses BT?
    How does one steal a physical item via a BT?  Or are you mistaking copyright violation for theft?
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  • Australian banks say Apple Pay is anticompetitive, appeal to anti-trust regulators

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    mattkelly1983 said:
    Our Australian Banks crying Poor again, and are some of the most profitable in the world.  :s

    I too signed up with ANZ so I can take advantage of Apple Pay. I hope the ACCC doesn't fall for this one, but track record to date would suggest otherwise...

    So you complain about their profitability, and then signed up to the most profitable one?
    cnocbui