gwydion

singularity said:

studiomusic said:

In France you can only work 35 hours per week. It is VERY hard to get an exception.
Unless you are management, in which case you can work as much as you want, but still get paid only 35 hours.
If you wanted to get two jobs to make more money, you can't. Simple as that.
And that's why a third of the economy is under-the-table- well, that, and taxes.

You can work for more than 35 hours. It's just that overtime rates and rest days come into force. That's why the French unions are vehemently against any change. They see it as a way of getting more work done on the cheap.
That's not to say for some jobs the 35 hour limit is strictly enforced. If you have a good thing as an employee why would you want to give it up. This does mean that the employment rate is higher as the cost of employing people is greater.

fallenjt said:

gwydion said:

This case is not about tax loopholes, this case is about illegal state aids

Exactly. Why would Apple have to pay backtax while there's none? Ireland gov need to pay if they violate EU tax laws, not Apple really...

latifbp said:

gwydion said:

What? How can late 80's predates EU authority in the matter?

Because there may be a grandfather clause for deals that predate your echolalia 'illegal state aid... Illegal state aid...' Otherwise it would not take these fools 2 years to investigate... Unless their incompetence is scripted by EU employment laws that only allow people to work from 9-12, take a mandatory 3 hour break, and then can only work from 3-5pm otherwise they will be convicted of 'illegal state overwork... illegal state overwork...'

wood1208 said:

When Government or it's whatever agency says, because of so and so tax loopholes, this happened. Well, if you don't have loophole in tax than companies will operate somewhere else and your people won't get job and extra revenue. So EU, either fix your tax loopholes or leave Apple and similar companies alone. And USA has similar problem where some companies merge with others and have their headquarter/operation in some countries where they pay less tax/benefits Nothing new.

sog35 said:

FACT: Android sales have been going down
FACT: Desktop search has been decreasing 5-15% each year for a decade
FACT: iOS mobile revenue makes up the bulk of Google's online advertising

Having those facts in mind it's obvious that any future revenue growth from Google will come from the growth of iOS ads.

Yet Wall Street views Google as a hyper growth company with a 30 PE.
When Google is literally a Tim Cook decision from having 90% of its future growth killed off.
Tim Cook could literally remove Google as the default search from iOS tomorrow.

Google would instantly lose 70% of its mobile advertising.
Google would instantly lose 90% of its future revenue growth.

Yet Wall Street thinks Google is 4x safer investment than Apple. Ridiculous.

For Apple to have shrinking revenues literally TENS OF MILLIONS of people would have to change their mind about a device they use every single day.
For Google to have shrinking revenues Tim Cook would just have to turn off a switch.