rune66

rotateleftbyte said:

In the UK, IMHO, Apple is not the main target. Those are Google and Amazon.

Apple pays a significant amount of VAT, Business Rates and National Insurance (Employers Contribution) to the UK Treasury. Google issues Invoices from Dublin and claims that they do no selling of adverts in the UK and Amazon... well the less said about channelling everything via cough, cough licenses to Luxembourg the better.

The same goes for Starbucks and McDonalds.

Apple doesn't pay VAT. VAT is a consumer tax that companies collect on behalf of the state.

It's kind of absurd that all the work Apple has put into creating a completely silent laptop is chrushed by this terrible and extremely noisy keyboard. 

I have been a loyal Mac buyer for 20 years but more and more is being taken away. Why is that I can get a fantastic Lenovo Thinkpad with OLED display, a proper keyboard, all the memory I need, a semi matte display that doesn't work like a mirror, for the same price as a MacBook Pro with yesterdays technology and a stupid gimmick touchbar. Apples other hardware offerings are running upgrades in slow motion not even knowing when there'll be another. And Mac OS? For last several iterations nothing has happened only loads of irrelevant features. To me Apple is without direction on the Mac hardware and OS-side.

Appears to be a matte og semi matte display. Finally we got rid of these stupid mirror screens 

You - Tim Cook - are a total pile of hypocrite crap. You try to defend the indefensible, and you should know. I guess power and money has gone to your head.