An apple a day doesn't keep the legal woes away.
Apple is a lot closer to being out of loose cash than most people realize.
They've had to pay out BILLIONS to shareholders who want to re-invest cash instead of it sitting in Apples accounts doing nothing.
Large numbers of remaining shareholders forced apple to not take "risks" with the cash it does still hold onto. It essentially has to ask shareholders for each R&D development it wants to pursue.
They're paying 13 billion to the EU for tax avoidance along with 5-10 billion in penalties.
China has said their subsidiaries "failed to pay legally due tax" and has said Apple is liable if Foxconn etc don't pay up.
India is pursuing lawsuits for tax avoidance for apple product sales but the amount is unknown.
China (again) saying they'll take Apples IP off them if they don't pay what they owe.
Internal struggles with Tim Cook fending off attempts to topple him from his position as people feel he's not a visionary, just a beancounter squeezing customers for every cent.
Apple deciding to END support completely for the iPhone X in October (no software or security updates at all - you're on your own) and now a plan to see just how much they can wring out of macbook users by lowering the quality of the product specifications to something from 2014-2015 and the build quality even lower whilst RAISING prices!.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
