Posts by wilhelmreuch

US Congress blew the whistle on tax-dodging Apple, claims Europe

Still dont get it.

Apple is paying a little more than 25% in tax. If they are a tax dodger they are not very good at it.

Contrary to what the EU-commision states the irish-registered Apple Sales International revenue is being taxed in the US, the tax is just not being collected yet (as per the US tax rules that allows companies to keep the money putside the US until they use it in the US). In their balance-sheet Apple has set aside 25 billion dollars as taxes-owed for this purpose.

So at around 26% Apple is paying a higher tax rate than companies in most EU-countries.

This undermine the EU-commission extreme arguments about tax advantages for Apple - when Apple is actually paying more in taxes than most european companies.

Google axes Jobsian codec in name of 'open'

Apple and Flash - not the same reason

Apple dropped Flash as it was buggy, insecure and wasted battery power. Very much unlike H.264.

Google drops H.264 bcause it doesnt match their definition of open. Very much like Flash.

Thus Google is ridiculous and just evil. And Apple is not.

Google: 'We did not follow Apple into phone market'

Google Copycat Inc.

Until theciPhone was a success Google was making a cheesy copy of a Blackberry. There is pictures of on Gizmodo an probably more places. After the iPhone they started work on a cheesy copy of iPhone. Or AppleTV which is a copy of the AppleTV. Or Buzz whis is a copy of Twitter. Cretivity and innovation doesnt seem to exist at Google - must be a very boring place to work.

Adobe man to Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

Adobe not telling the truth

Some people say this technology of Adobe builds native apps. This is completely wrong. It just packages the same murky Flash Runtime together with the app and makes it appear as a naive app.

Listen to Kevin Lynch (Adobe's Chief Tech Officer) in an interview on allthingsd.com in february:

"since we are not allowed to install the flash runtime in the operating system we are basically packaging it with the app"

No wonder Apple goes all postal on them. Despite telling clearly that they dont want the Adobe product ... Adobe is trying to sneak it in via a backdoor!!