Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update

Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by gamblor956 on Saturday August 10, 2024 @03:16PM (#41211568)

The risk with Apple calling the EU's "bluff" is that the EU may then to seek to break Apple apart into hardware and software divisions, and Apple will have handed the EU the ammunition they need to guarantee it happens.

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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by gigatexal on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:55AM (#41216167)

How? If Apple left the EU entirely, closed all stores, shut down all EU operations, what jurisdiction would the EU have?

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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by gamblor956 on Monday August 12, 2024 @02:01PM (#41227439)

If Apple actually did that, then none.

But Apple's corporate tax structure requires them to be in the EU. It's not just the loss of EU revenues at stake; Apple would owe hundreds of billions more in taxes each year as a result of this "simple" suggestion.

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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by gigatexal on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @08:56AM (#41235007)

their irish tax shelter thing maybe they move it to the UK not part of the EU and then that fixes things?>

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