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@davewill: yet another instance where I should have said no way, right away. Long story short ... Showed user a screenshot of yesterday,s home page and pointed out the bazillion links interspersed among CNN.com links and asked "are you sure?". They said they see now that it was links to other sites they were clicking. I still say the browser should have a mode where it only deals with links and references with the same domain as in the page URL. All other links and references are ignored. That suggestion on connect was already shot down though.

@kettch: agreed. And then the next suggestion would be private encryption but that has 2 downsides: first, exchanging decryption info while being followed by a tinted windowed sedan with no meaningful markings. Second, the complexity of the encryption would have to be pretty awesome because ... have you seen the new NSA center they are building.

Whoa. Sounds like Milton got the red Swingline taken away. I guess there will be a fax machine beat-down next.

@evildictaitor: hmmm. Not sure the intellectual property fact matters. Intellectual property wasn't sold. Product was sold. If AOI created the product on their books (their costs at this point) then sold the products on their books (their revenue at this point), the profit on AOI books is taxable to AOI's jurisdiction. Now when that money is transferred from AOI to Apple Inc., then Apple Inc.'s book incurs the income and at that point falls under the jurisdiction of Apple Inc. (I'd imagine AOI would keep the income on their book until a more favorable transfer could take place to bring the money back to Apple Inc.)

According to Apple, AOI's net income made up 30% of Apple's total worldwide net profits from 2009-2011, yet Apple also disclosed to the Subcommittee that AOI did not pay any corporate income tax to any national government during that period

Has there been any specifics stating whether the AOI net income has been transferred to Apple Inc. yet? If the money is still in AOI then it wouldn't fall under U.S. tax code.

1 day ago, Dan276 wrote

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It's not a real big deal.  It's just voting on the best picture of me, that will be on many social media sites, apps and probably my movie dvd.  You can say, I helped vote for that picture.

If we take the time to vote and follow the results through as you expect, will you reciprocate back to all your fans who post their support here as well?

5 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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You can't "get competitive" on corporation tax when the corporation tax Apple are currently paying on 30% of their world wide profit going through this tax scam is paying ZERO PERCENT corporation tax globally.

There is a balance. Your subsequent comment regarding the cost of liberty is a key driver in the balance. The US is one of the most stable economic environments within which a corporation can operate. To go through the trouble of setting up AOI and keeping it legal (loose term) all these years, Apple must feel that the taxation is too high even with the stability. Maybe there was some internal discussion those years ago regarding whether they should relocate Apple entirely outside the US or try this type of hybrid approach. Maybe they opted to try the hybrid approach and then if that doesn't work they could reevaluate.

There are pluses to staying and like you mentioned, security costs, there are minuses to leaving. It really comes down to how much of a difference in the known pluses and minuses there are and then if that difference is significant enough to offset the unknown risks. All those things weigh in to the competitive analysis.

The carrot, not stick, approach should be the one followed. The US Senate sounds as if they are wielding sticks.

Hmmmmm.  The child turned on the xbox 360 today and the new Xbox One came up on the main page in one of the blocks.  He said "Look there is a picture of the first Xbox. It looks really old."  And then went into Minecraft. I didn't say a word.

Don't forget you can build "touch first" applications totally in the desktop realm without ever touching WinRT. Windows wasn't touch friendly in the past not the applications we have the capability to create.  Once they get the rest of the OS touch friendly all will be golden.

@Jsoh: you mean "Mnid Bwlon", right Jsoh