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Remember Google
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 07:02 PM EDT
Isn't that all a rather silly hypothesis ? It would really
be most unwise of any company to get itself into a state of
conflict with the courts themselves. This is a no-win for
apple and if it is, as seems to be the case, just an example
of apple trying to be too smart for their own good then it's
going to be fun watching them get brought down to earth
rather emphatically.

Make no mistake. The courts will prevail. Maybe its
difficult for some americans to understand, but the high
courts in the EU won't tolerate gaming the system or
contempt of court. What apple is doing is playing a very
dangerous game that they cannot win. It has to do with the
rule of law, and no legal system will allow itself to be
undermined by a bunch of juvenile delinquents, even if they
have loads of cash in the bank.

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Remember Google
Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 08:05 PM EDT
Yes Apple could decide to pull out of Europe, of course they could, but then
Europe is a rather large market, bigger than the USA, this isn't a UK court it's
an EU court that happens to be physically in London. Apple are fighting hard to
remain number one in smartphones (actually they are already #2 but only by
numbers) and they love being the world's most valuable company. Pulling out of
Europe would relegate them from those positions very fast.
And who else would be hurt? European Apple fans of course and ...

Samsung would be happy, Google would be happy, the court wouldn't care,
governments wouldn't care.

Apple can't win,

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There is nothing in life that doesn't look better after a good cup of tea.

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Remember Google
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 04:14 AM EDT

Total assets US$ 176.064 billion (2012)
Total equity US$ 118.210 billion (2012)

Look at the "Total Equity" figure. Apple has essentially no debt, and huge income.
I'm seeing:

Total Liabilities = Total Assets - Total Equity
Total Liabilities ≈ $176 bn - $118 bn ≈ $ 58 bn
ie total DEBTS of approx $58bn

(Otherwise I've just wasted the last 9 months studying bookkeeping and accountancy.)

So how do you see "essentially no debt" with total liabilities of about $58bn (about half of the total equity figure)?

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