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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by nknighthb on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:41AM (#5761829)
> Subsidiary company in Ireland is charging parent company Apple Inc. huge licensing fees.

Cook explicitly denied this in his testimony. Are you simply assuming Apple is doing the same thing some other companies have done, or do you have evidence they have done this?

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by justincormack on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:48AM (#5761843)
I believe the details are in the committee report released before the hearing. The claim is that the IP deal is not something that would be done with a third party it is far too cheap.

See here for references and one view http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/21/tim-cooks-i...

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Re: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billio... by nknighthb on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:56AM (#5761867)
This sounds like it's practically the opposite of the accusation I quoted, no?
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