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Great stuff DED - for the sake of humanity, get booked for some airtime in the circus of business news (eg. Emily 'Is Apple Doomed?' Chang) and expose the lack of journalistic integrity in this shameless farce of advertising and entertainment pertaining to be news. Alway enjoy Horace - he corrects and disputes some of the babble from these studio autocue 'journalists'. 

So it begins! Finally. 

Honestly thought it was closer to 2B- hopefully is, on Jan 26.
Horace at Asymco has a good take on this stuff. It's a big part of
the "should/if or when apple enter search.They have the tech.

As an Irish Republican and a proud AAPL share holder for over 20 years - the Sinners need to wise up and avoid the US style political BS in business. Apple paid what was required off them under EU and Irish law at that time - they are mandated to that. If corrupt political  feck wits in Dublin or Brussels got it wrong - who are they to require retro payments now. Apple helped sustain Cork in tough times and never left as so many US firms did, especially after politically orientated tax incentives  and corrupt financial rewards expired - eg. the sad corrupt tale of Fruit of the Loom in north west Ulster.

If they're role in Ireland becomes a political BS game - they will probably adopt a path of least resistance and protect their employees, customers and shareholders

Smoke and mirrors before earnings  next week - its their MO. Much like gimmicks to increase Prime numbers this weekend  so as to  impress people with a growth and justify a P/E of 818! Eat it up Wall Street!