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"We do not need to be spoon-fed media opinions based on the objectives of Apple's rivals. And we don't need to bathe in a false narrative that Apple isn't really successful, doesn't ever know what it's doing and is at real risk of constant failure for failing to listen to the media's ideas. " BRAVO!

srice said:

SpamSandwich said:

I say Apple should tell the EU they'll be relocating to Britain now that they're out of the EU.

They would still need to pay EU taxes on revenues obtained in the EU.

I blame the Big Four -- they are shills and sell fancy financial tricks to save $$, collect their fees and run.  5 years later the taxman comes a calling and demands taxes owed. By then the Big Four are long gone.  Corporations should take the Big Fours tricks with a pile of salt. 

... actually, the EU can only go directly at Ireland. They have no legal authority to order Apple to pay a dime. Its up to Ireland to extract the tax from Apple.

"Um cautioned that it's difficult to gauge how important Apple's contribution will be to Qorvo, since factors like demand from Chinese phone manufacturers could be driving up revenue as well. " Interesting: when suppliers point to a downturn, its always Apple's fault regardless if they are only 27% of a given company's business.

Well, he is starting the discussion by declaring his ignorance: "he did understand why Apple chose litigation as a venue to start the conversation." It is well documented that Apple started the discussion about the San Bernardino iPhone by giving the FBI immediate access to the information they had. THEN, in a press release, the FBI & DOJ blindsided Apple by slapping them with a court order to create a govOS version if iOS. Last I looked, that FBI court order is the very definition of "starting litigation". So Mr. Director, who started the litigation????

Gee folks, it's all clear to me. Apple does not care about investors, it cares about its customers. Those customers reward Apple with the title of best-respected company in the world and the most profitable company in the world. Apple makes more profit in a given day than AMZN does in a quarter. So who cares about profit? Not Mr Market, it seems. Yes, and some day Apple will cease to impress its customers, but I'm betting that all the "peak" noise is just that - noise. Re the iPad: Does Mr. market realize that Intel spent BILLIONS over the last two years trying to jam their high end cpu chips into low-end tables (contra revenue subsidies) in order to capture the iPad magic? Guess what - it failed. Similarly, Samsung takes the slim profit they glean from huge volumes of low-end handsets to fund the sale of their top end phone - by way of free TVs with a handset, and 2-for-1 sales. Meanwhile Apple just delivers a great ecosystem and great products that last far longer in the wild than Mr. Market wants them to (planned obsolescence is great for replacement unit sales, but bad for the customer.)