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The question we need to ask is Apple the largest tax payer or is the company that has avoided paying the most tax.
Read the articles and let your blood boil.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324787004578495250424727708.html
Another point to note is that the company was setup in Ireland in 1980. So how much more tax has Apple avoided.
The rules of Ireland says that the companies will be taxed where they operate and the US laws say that companies will be taxed where they are incorporated. So Apple incorporated a company in Ireland and carried out operations from the US. So it is neither taxable in the US nor in Ireland.
What Apple has done seems to be legal, but is it something that would be expected of a morally right company?
Apple gets a small spanking
Posted November 8, 2012
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How very true, patents are being used for very wrong purposes.
High time the patent office sit up and take notice at the mess it has been created in the name of safeguarding inventions and protecting creators from fraudsters.
While one cannot do away with patents one needs to come down with a heavy hand on patent trolls and companies like Apple which are using patents to malign others and cut down businesses of others.
The Patent Office needs to take cognizance of its mistakes, acknowledge it and clean up its act and become wary of granting patents at the whims and fancy of the companies or being overawed by the person claiming the patent (this is possibly what happened with Steve Jobs and Apple).
Another good read, a year old but still very relevant http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/software-patents
What Apple Stole?
Posted October 29, 2012
on:- In: Apple | Unoriginal
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An honest Apple Store
Posted October 23, 2012
on:- In: Apple | Humor | Humour
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Honest Apple Store
Read the tagline.
Apple Vs Android
Enacted by Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Batman using Apple Maps
Posted October 23, 2012
on:- In: Apple | Humor | Humour | Maps
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Look where all Apple Maps takes Batman to.
More Apple Jokes
Posted October 3, 2012
on:What an Apple App Developer faces.
All that one can attribute to iPhone glitches
From http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/raunchy-iphone-glitch/
Google a Life Saver from Apple Maps
How Google can be Life Saver when using Apple Maps
From http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/how-google-is-helping-apple/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/ The two clocks side by side to clear any doubts of Apple Fanboys only the logo has been done away. Thankfully they have not substituted it with the Apple logo. We can possibly soon see Apple suing the Swiss Railways for what it has patented.
http://gizmodo.com/5945008/apple-totally-stole-the-design-of-the-ios-6-ipad-clock. See the comments by the Apple fanboys in this article.
Fun with Apple
Posted September 26, 2012
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The accuracy of Apple Maps helps Christopher Columbus discover America.
From http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/how-christopher-columbus-actually-discovered-america/
London Underground helps Apple Map users find their way to their destination
Looking at the plight of the users of Apple Map London Underground has decided to addon the following note so that the passengers reach their correct destination.
From http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/very-clever-london-underground/
The faithful herd following their Messiah
From http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/meanwhile-at-the-apple-store/ (A view of the faithful at the Apple Store)
Watch how desperately wants an iPhone 5
How blind are Apple Fanboys?
See the Original Apple iPhone Introduction
Now watch the parody
Here is Steve Jobs Resurrected rapping away in all glory introducing the iPhone 5 to the Apple Fan Boys
The lyrics “Get an iPhone 5, Don’t ask why” summarizes the philosophy of the Apple Fanboys.
Another RAP Parody
Another parody exaggerating of Apple iPhone 5 features
An Extra Tall Apple iPhone
Apple iPhone5 Vs. Samsung S III – Drop Test
Here is finally something that will give Apple fanboys to cheer about.
Another fantastic poke at the Apple Fanboys. This exemplifies the extent to which Apple Fanboys will go to justify and glorify everything that Apple does.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6823327/apple-coasting-keynote-with-christopher-mcdonald
iPhone for photographing Food
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However good, Apple’s iPhone is a premium product with the minimum price for any iPhone being 200 USD (Ok, Ok 199 USD). And given that price point it will have only a limited market. In its present form it cannot hope to achieve a growth as witnessed by Nokia or is being seen by Android phone makers today.
Both Nokia and Android phone makers have phones that address a wider strata of people. One can get an Android phone for as low as a 120 USD (See this for some of the cheap Android phones available in India). And these phones give more bang for the buck than possibly the top end iPhone. These phones give facility
- to addon a SD card of upto 32 GB or atleast 16GB. One can swap songs and photos with friends (Yes legally this will be piracy, but then we have a long way to go before we can fix this problem and we also need to have the music companies come down from their high pedestal so that there can be a middle path).
- It has a music player which is probably not the best, but not everybody is a connoisseur of music and anything that beats out loud music is sufficient to satisfy most.
- One can also watch movies. Most do not have access to HD content and so anything that plays a decent quality video is good enough.
- Most of them have a FM radio which happens to be a staple diet of many of the people at the lower strata,
- possibly a 2 MB or VGA camera which is good enough to be posted on one’s facebook or shared over email
- To top it all, if the phone conks, it can be “fixed” in a shop round practically any corner (at least that is the case in India).
As opposed to this
- iPhone is a closed system and one cannot squeeze more storage than provided. One cannot exchange music with friends easily. The only way to get to that storage is through iTunes which is possibly one of the most user-unfriendly software ever written.
- iPhone reproduces every nuance of the music even after it is cut down to mp3. But as mentioned not everybody seeks that level of quality.
- iPhone can record and play HD, but the population that today as access to HD movies are very limited.
- iPhone does not come with a FM receiver. Although there are applications through which one can get FM channels, these require a data connection and data connections do not come cheap.
- iPhone has a 8MP camera but many need it only to be shared over facebook or sent as an email and many cannot afford to send over a 3MB photograph. The internet data costs are too high.
- If it is conked then cross your fingers and go in search of an Apple store and hope they can fix or replace it for you. It may not be so cheap as the shop round the corner.
Look at the infographics of the world by income levels.