On 2016-10-03, Silver Slimer wrote:

On 2016-10-03 1:26 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
On 2016-10-03 9:26 AM, Mongoose wrote:


"Jolly Roger" wrote in message
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Fritz Wuehler
wrote:
Apple has been ordered to pay $302.4 million to the patent
holding and security software company VirnetX

Oh no, the sky is falling! : D Corrupt court known for siding
with patent trolls gives Apple a slap on the wrist for doing
nothing wrong.

You fangurls are really stupid. Apple screws you without
vaseline, and you bend over for more.

How do they do that: by making products that people want and
selling them at prices those people are willing to pay?

Except they don't do that. They make LIMITED hardware at exorbitant
prices knowing that there are enough dumb people out there willing to
buy it as a fashion statement.

I wouldn't go so far as to call them dumb people but they are people
who like the Apple culture, prefer the ease of use right from the moment
they take the system out of the box and so forth.
And Apple support is number one by far.

People are willing to pay extra for that.
That being said, there is nothing magical about Apple hardware or
software for that matter with one exception and that is it is all
controlled tightly (although that seems to be fading a bit with the last
updates) so it tends to work well together.


$300 million is a drop in the bucket for a company that takes
in over $18 billion a quarter. Apple makes enough money in
profit to pay this fine in a couple days. Big deal.

Especially in the light of they don't pay any taxes.

Bull****.

It's accurate. Apple's taxes are mostly paid elsewhere and they've
been avoiding giving the United States even a dime. They went to court
over it near and after Jobs' death and Tim Cook was asked point-blank
why Apple avoids paying taxes in the United States. Try to pause your
fanboyism for a day to look it up.

As long as Apple isn't doing anything illegal, they would be doing their
shareholders a disservice if they were paying more taxes than legally
required.

The same goes for Trump BTW.
What kind of an idiot doesn't try to reduce his taxes LEGALLY by using
every line in the tax code to his advantage?

Every single one of us in USA does it every year.
Key word LEGALLY.