News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by yummyfajitas on Monday January 23, 2012 @09:42AM (#3500481)
Enforcement of Apple's intellectual property? Protection of their brand and trademarks?...

These are all benefits received by Apple USA, which pays income taxes to the US.

Apple's Chinese subsidiaries (which is what we were discussing) do not receive those benefits from the US government, and hence do not pay for them.

Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by easp on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @04:02AM (#3504027)
No. We are talking about Apple. You may be talking only about Apple's Chineese subsidiaries. Even so, they do not exist in a vacuum, and it is foolish to think that Apple's IP, brand and trademarks would be as secure in China without the global system of IP protection that the US government has been instrumental in building.