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  • Apple CFO says 'fair' outcome in Irish tax investigation would be no money owed

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    With all the huge brains from both Ireland and Apple involved in the initial agreement I find it unfathomable that an outcome like this was not at least considered. 

    I mean, these are the double Dutch Irish sandwich tax experts. If the whole arrangement hinged on some form of preferential treatment...  If it looks like a duck.

    Dont think Apple came into this naively. 
    gatorguy

  • Mac, iOS versions of Safari crashing due to search suggestions feature [u]

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    stevie said:
    All software has bugs.  Nothing to see here.
    True. A bit like a certain nfl / Microsoft incident, huh?
    singularity

  • Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown

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    birko said:
    tezgno said:
    While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time). The tablet runs an application that connects to NFL servers and pulls in data including pictures, replay information, etc. It is that system that has been going down recently. To be honest, while Microsoft has paid a large sum of money for their tablets to be shown and used, the entire process is technically platform agnostic. They can run the application on anything. Unfortunately, it wouldn't matter which tablet they chose in these cases... if their servers are down, then there is nothing that can be done.
    Surely you could have duplicate copies of plays saved on the surface. Airplanes have their entire flight manuals on an iPad.
    Well you could, but you can't cache something that literally just happened. Like the last play. 
    netmage

  • Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown

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    Dude gets paid by the word. I agree it's not a good look for MS but it's difficult to split out the problem when the surface device is the only thing that anyone sees in the solution. 

    Can't say I'm surprised the guy quotes himself to support his assertions. 

    rhinotuffrAI16techloverthepixeldoc

  • Ireland's Sinn Fein party says it will pursue Apple if company owes back taxes

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    jfc1138 said:
    ewtheckman said:
    So you're saying that it doesn't matter that they obeyed the laws? What is this case about then if they're trying to punish Apple in spite of them obeying the laws?
    Ireland and Apple made a special arrangement that they argue is within the rules of the EU for corporate aid, the EU suspects it's otherwise.
    There's nothing retroactive happening in the "application" of back taxes if the arrangement was never legal in the first place. 

    This is what the EU are exploring. So Apple and Irish might be operating to the letter of their agreement but if it was void from the start then the whole arrangement unravels, Apple and Ireland were not in fact obeying the law and the parties are back where they started, with bonus sanctions in this case.


    ronn