Posts by beyond all knowledge

Dad sues Apple for pushing cash-draining 'free' games at kids

or any purchase

Well, he's complaining about in-app purchases. The child can still download original content as well. As an example, how about 50,000 songs.

Internet Explorer nibbles browser rivals, swells by 1%

Safari

I have Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari installed on my computer.

I prefer Safari.

Unlawful tweets could land Twitter in Blighty's dock

Common sense. Obvious. Three words judges and lawyers really need to be able to comprehend.

New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps

Re: Re: Re: Re: Pick your garden now while you can still see the alternatives...

That is incorrect. The default is the middle option and therefore the developers are NOT "now obligated to distribute their apps through the App Store as the only way to distribute their apps to the computer illiterate." The computer illiterate, as you call them, do not need to untick the easy box to get out of the "App Store only download option" as that is NOT the default. Read the article properly next time.

Amazon's Android-friendly Kindle Fire splutters

iTunes on Windows

You are not locked into Apple products. All of my songs that are on my iMac are still available for me on a Windows machine.

'Amazon Tax' California decision pushed back a year

a reply

I guess you are right there. I wouldn't charge GST because it wouldn't apply in CA anyway, but I guess I wouldn't charge the relevant CA taxes either because I wouldn't know how to go about it anyway, and as has been pointed out, every jurisdiction would have there own laws and taxes - it indeed would be a nightmare to implement if you are an online retailer, since a physical store only has to worry about the one set of rules where it is located.

Amazon should respect laws and taxes like everybody else

I live in Australia and I purchase items through the Apple store. My invoices clearly show the GST taxes that I pay when I purchase things. I have never bought through Amazon, but they should also respect the laws and taxes of goods sold into wherever they sell their goods.

I buy online for convenience, but will continue to refuse to buy from Amazon until I stop seeing articles like this. Their greed may gain some customers, but their greed also stops some customers.

Its called being a good corporate citizen. And it is especially pertinent in that they are a US company, and that CA is a US state. They are competing with brick and mortar stores in the state they are selling into which employ people and paying all sorts of taxes there as well. Amazon are just being greedy in that they can try and increase market share by not applying the relevant taxes onto the price of the goods they sell.

Well, greed in the long term does not pay. Its called Karma.