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Originally Posted by martyh
Not sure about standing up to Apple ,It's the EU's very nature to interfere with other countries they can't help themselves 
Anyhoo ,who gets the tax money if Apple pay and assuming it's Ireland what's to stop them giving most of it back in rebates and tax breaks |
Because that too would be illegal state aid.
I think it's a problem either way with the EU here. If they don't intervene then what is to stop a race to the bottom where large corporations pit countries against each other to get the very lowest tax rate possible without having to actually base any real part of their operations there? It's fine if it's corporation tax but that's paid for everybody and governments have expenses to cover but if it's unique to the big companies then any nation can offer a pittance of a tax rate just to get
some cash and the bigger nations, who've paid for much of the state they profit from, will get nothing.
On the other hand it is intervening in tax policy.
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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
As for Apple, it's a also a dying shame a company that makes profit taking ideas from elsewhere, lowers the specs of the product, adds an exclusive OS to it then charging double will have to pay tax.
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Sort of the popular but incorrect view of Apple. Most companies 'take ideas from elsewhere', Google wasn't the first search engine and Facebook wasn't the first social network. What Apple do well is execute on those ideas. Touch screen devices wasn't first with the iPhone but no one did it well before then. TouchID was miles ahead of anything on Android when it came to the iPhone. They introduced the 64 bit chip on phones a couple of years before their rivals thought it would be time (leading to the rushed disaster which was the QC 808/810 chips)
As for specs well Apple has excellent specs for the phone. The A9 chip from last September rivals, even beats, the Galaxy Note 7. They're starting to fall behind on things like the screen but when it comes to chipsets Apple are doing far more exciting things than Qualcomm. They're easily the most exciting chipset company right now although AMD are doing cool things with Polaris.
If you're interested in processors and such this is a great breakdown of the A9 chip:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/t...-plus-review/2