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by IBM 9y ago
Windows compatibility was always a checklist feature meant to convince anxious Windows users that switching would be fine. In practice hardly anyone bothered with it. And this was when the PC mattered more. If they're switching today I
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by IBM 9y ago
How many milliliters of coffee is a cup?
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by IBM 9y ago
Boy did Apple skate to where the puck was headed or what? I remember reading all those hot takes years ago insisting it was a mistake and thinking how short sighted that was [1][2]. It was also weird because even before the Apple Watch was
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by IBM 9y ago
Soros is the ideological enemy of the Bannon wing on the political spectrum and yet they both agree on regulating Big Tech. It's an exciting, and bipartisan, time for the antitrust movement.
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by IBM 9y ago
Jeff Williams has been the pointman on Health stuff at Apple for a while now and he's definitely spoken on-the-record about it before [1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/apple-ceo-jeff-williams-talk.
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Google Just Broke Amazon’s Workaround for YouTube on Fire TV(theverge.com)
47 points by IBM 9y ago|15 comments
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WTF is GDPR?(techcrunch.com)
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by IBM 9y ago
I think it's fine to view taxes that way, but we should also realize that to a business taxes are a cost to be minimized. No for-profit business willingly conducts their affairs to maximize taxes. We live in a rules based system and th
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by IBM 9y ago
Yes you get a credit for the foreign taxes paid, but even still it's absurdly punitive for being an American corporation.
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by IBM 9y ago
They fought this bill hard because the tax proceeds are being given away to corporations with a massive reduction in the corporate rate (along with other giveaways that benefit the wealthy such as lowering personal income taxes and raising
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by IBM 9y ago
The US government is forcing all companies to pay a mandatory tax of 15.5% on all overseas profit that was designated as "indefinitely reinvested" under the previous tax regime. This is a mandatory one-time tax as part of a shift
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by IBM 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think a big 4 accounting firm would need to do clickbait, but that's beside the point. Whether Apple left the cash in Ireland or brought it back to the US, they would have paid $38B in taxes. That's the m
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by IBM 9y ago
>Incorrect. There is a repatriation tax holiday designed to encourage repatriation. They are not required to do so. Unfortunately, you're incorrect. https://www.pwc.com/us/en/tax-services/publications&
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by IBM 9y ago
Nobody had to convince Apple or any other company to do anything. The repatriation is deemed, i.e no company has a choice in it. And while you may believe it was "proposed" by Trump, it has actually been in the works for years by
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by IBM 9y ago
It comes from how much they spend with US suppliers. They're basically highlighting what their economic impact is to the US.
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by IBM 9y ago
The taxes are only one part of this announcement. >Apple expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US over the next five years and create over 20,000 new jobs through hiring at existing campuses and opening a new
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by IBM 9y ago
American Declinism has been a popular meme since the 50s, some day it will be true I guess [1]: >Twenty-two years ago, in a refreshingly clear-sighted article for Foreign Affairs, Harvard’s Samuel P. Huntington noted that the theme of &q
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by IBM 9y ago
Maybe he was kidnapped by the CIA or a friendly intelligence agency and brought back covertly to avoid a diplomatic incident with China. https://youtu.be/-u2TLXEJJpA?t=3m
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by IBM 9y ago
This isn't the 80s any 90s anymore, "technology influencers" have no impact on Apple's business. This is a common trope I see usually when "technology influencers" are mad about some product decision Apple make
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by IBM 9y ago
There's no evidence that Apple's ideas about privacy or encryption have any positive effect on sales. The only people who might even be aware of it are tech people, and that doesn't move the needle at all. See the tech people
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by IBM 9y ago
What about having it wipe all your user data? https://www.computerworld.com/article/2528936/mac-os-x/snow-...
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by IBM 9y ago
The consolidation of online advertising is a real problem, but I don't think Apple should be making product decisions to preserve competition in the ad market. Preserving competition is literally the job of antitrust regulators and tha
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by IBM 9y ago
When Facebook can graft Snap features onto every endpoint of their network, there's no oxygen left for Snap. They cannot get scale, and that's what you need in advertising.
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by IBM 9y ago
I'd believe that if advertisers weren't shifting their budgets over to Instagram Stories at Snap's expense [1][2]. [1] http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/snap-stock-pr... [2] https:&#x2
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by IBM 9y ago
Snap's fate was preordained because of the vice grip Google and Facebook have on online advertising. The only way to deal with market failures is aggressive antitrust enforcement. The EU has begun and others are sniffing around [1][2].
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Israel's anti-trust regulator to look at internet giants(reuters.com)
3 points by IBM 9y ago|0 comments
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by IBM 9y ago
Jana is raising a fund for activist socially responsible investing, so that's clearly their motivation [1]. CalSTRS is $1.3B of the combined $2B so I doubt they're "just a pawn". [1] https://www.wsj.com/a
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by IBM 9y ago
I'm sure Apple can create some more granular controls to restrict certain apps, but it's probably going to hurt CalSTRS. I took a look at their 13F filing and some of their holdings include Google, Facebook and Twitter. They shoul
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How to Curb Silicon Valley Power–Even with Weak Antitrust Laws(wired.com)
1 points by IBM 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple joins AV1 consortium(cnet.com)
7 points by IBM 9y ago|0 comments

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