New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I would also like the answer to this question.

love the new rumors today about macbook pros at wwdc

"ok, well the april release rumors are proven false, which proves they're definitely going to release it at wwdc"

Am hoping for iPad mini at wwdc. Also a slim down non-fat format for apps because the retina ones are massive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Apple's fantastical tax-avoiding magic.

Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives. Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.

Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich

Have read this exact same story about Google I'm pretty sure. Dropping in the quote from the community college president blaming California's budget crisis on Apple's accounting is some classy journalism right there.

The magic of taxes are basically that states and the federal government have baked enough loopholes in that were there to encourage business of one sort or another that companies that are national or international can jump through them and get taxed less by expanding their financial web.

The size issue for Retina apps is basically another media invention. The reason Garageband and iMovie got so much larger in the last update was because of new features / themes, not because of the graphics.

tbh I don't know if "loopholes" really does the issue justice. Certainly you have jurisdictions that have made corporate tax rates extra low to "attract business" but the problem is really the ease with which a modern global corporation can take advantage of its global reach to avoid taxes, especially a tech corp. "Loophole" implies there's some little clause in the tax code that can just be changed or removed. This seems much harder to deal with than that.

I'm a software developer. Loopholes are very, very structurally relevant when you have a large infrastructure -- like our entire tax code -- using them extensively.

imo you either have to do an intense reworking of large portions of the tax system or throw out most of what we have in the US and rewrite it from the ground up -- but everyone who wants to do the latter is a nut like Herman Cain or Steve Forbes

The problem though is that it's not just one tax code, it's one federal, fifty states and 100-something foreign countries. You'd have to get some crazy level of international cooperation to really address it fully.

Oh, certainly. Any money made abroad is a lost cause, but anything inside the US might be able to be stomped at the federal level. Is a company doing business in California but existing for Nevada for tax purposes by definition engaged in interstate commerce?

A company "doing business" in California will pay tax on the "business" that it does in California, as I understand it, but how that's actually defined is trickier.

I saw a cashier at tj's today whose name was siri

i got an iPad 3 for my birthday. Thanks, PP! I wanted one with 4G this time around so I took it to the apple store and of course they forced me to go through a setup tutorial. The dude shows me Dictation and wants me to try it out during which several people, who may or may not have worked there, were thoroughly entertained by the completely incorrect text resulting from my Australian accent and then again by the different but just as wrong text results using my faux american accent (which is really just me talking a lot louder with a twang and lots of rrrrrrrs on the end of words). Why you all laughing at me when its your product fucking up fucking lames

they're laughing at you cause they're geniuses

my faux american accent (which is really just me talking a lot louder with a twang and lots of rrrrrrrs on the end of words)

<3

rrrrrrhotic foreverrrrr USA USA

in France there is a thing everybody says when they're imitating Americans, it goes something like

"WATAH MATAH GETAH FORRRRRRRR"

I love that every product on the MacRumors Buyer's Guide is marked as Don't Buy - Updates Soon

On the other hand, GREAT CTHULHU WHEN IS APPLE GOING TO RELEASE THE NEW MACBOOK PRO? MINE IS 5 YEARS OLD AND VERY TIRED. WANT NEW SHINY THING BECAUSE I WORK ON IT AND GENERATES MONEY FOR OTHER COOL THINGS.

hey you don't have to justify to me, man, go for it

apple has done nothing spectacular for industrial design since jobso died iirc

It's just that I have to grit teeth until the Ivy Bridge-powered MBPs are released. It's significant enough of an architecture improvement that it's worth the wait. I think HP might have already announced theirs, I'm just waiting for the white smoke to appear on the roof of 1 Infinite Loop.

xp

Man, no one is updating that buyers guide, it doesn't mention the third-gen iPad or iPhone 4s

Cult of Mac do one too, which has been updated:

http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-store-check/

heard someone say it wouldn't make any sense to update to mountain lion w/o a new top of the line laptop to show it off and vice versa, sounds reasonable imo esp if there's a retina display thing in the works

lol the cultofmac guide kind of looks like a bunch of Nest thermostats

you were looking at the wrong one:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Ha, even the buyer's guides need buyer's guides.

i'm not sure how much stock i put in that cult of mac guide, not only cause it's terrible from a design standpoint but also when you're telling me the ipod update is 701 DAYS OVERDUE then i start to question your methodology

HOLD OFF ON BUYING THAT CUBE.

*waits*

ipod classic hasn't been updated for a couple of years though. but yeah, updated some actual computers already.

think they're waiting for diablo 3 to come out to assess the viability of the current mac lineup

ipod classic is the only device even close to 160 GB, will probably remain on sale until ipod touches/nanos start packing > 128 GB flash

think they're waiting for diablo 3 to come out to assess the viability of the current mac lineup

Actually, I can believe this....

june 11th for new macbook pro?

Counting down the days here...

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/24/apple-tim-cook-ceo/

The world needs more stories about dudes who like to eat dinner alone on vacation while reading. I'm down with that.

haha

ha, that was basically my last 'vacation', mh, and it ruled

fuck yeah

so . . . easiest way to get rid of a macbook battery?

Apple store?

throw it in yr neighbor's garbage

eat it

craigslist

melt it