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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple's in trouble again
Date: 2 Feb 2015 16:53:54 GMT
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On 2015-02-02, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> This may spell real trouble for Apple:

"Real trouble"? Hardly. As usual, you do your best to cast things in the
worst possible light for Apple. Doom and gloom is your modus operandi.

Apple's got, last I checked ~$180 billion in cash, part of which is
overseas. All that would happen if this passed would be that Apple would
pay a 14% tax on the overseas cash immediately, which Apple can quite
easily afford. Even if Apple had *all* of that cash overseas, the total
bill would be $25 billion. Apple made $18 billion just in Q4 2014. I see
no "real trouble" here.

But you sure do! Because it's what you do. You'll probably turn to your
next trick and attempt to inject "if"s and "but"s into the mix, doing
your best to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt from thin air, matching
your aforementioned modus operandi - namely: spreading FUD. I can
already hear you saying, "if Apple does x, doom & gloom, or if Apple
does y, insert tragedy here". Keep on spouting bullshit if you feel you
must, but know that your silly game will continue to have zero effect on
Apple's long-term success.

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JR