Low Rates And Not Too Many Questions
Apple’s arrival to Cork, Irish Times, 1981 (click to enlarge) When tax was a weapon. “Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, when Ireland was a poor state desperately trying to attract investment, tax was a...
View ArticleA Long Way From £2 Apple
Apple’s Irish company documents from the Summer of 1980. ‘Waldwill Limited’ was ‘set up’ by two Irish residents (above) as the company’s only shareholders. The company became Apple Operations...
View ArticleNot Far From The Tree
Apple’s Cork HQ during a visit by French Apple staff in 1980. A former company executive and Irish officials told Reuters the almost tax-free status dates all the way back to Apple’s arrival in...
View ArticleHome And Away
Inside Apple as musicians play the Irish Rover as we connect Regent St store with its Irish tax roots. #iDodge twitter.com/100Acts/status… — 100Acts (@100Acts) June 3, 2013 Thanks to all at the Apple...
View ArticleiCandy: iOS7
The official trailer for Apple’s new, totally revamped mobile operating system in which Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design Sir Jony Ive waxes lyrical about, well, design. Androids gonna hate. iOS...
View ArticleChargeCard
One chubby credit card sized doohickey. No more Apple charging cable. ($25) likecool
View ArticleMini Mac
A one-third scale, palm sized 512k working replica of the original Macintosh, complete with Raspberry Pi motherboard and 3.5in screen built by Mac nut and co-host of the RetroMacCast podcast, John...
View ArticleiPhone5 Versus iPhone 5s
A filthy Cupertino pr0n-off between the shameless 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Apple A5 (SoC) and the utterly wanton 1.3 GHz dual-core Apple-designed ARMv8 64-bit Apple A7 with M7 motion coprocessor....
View ArticleHow To Create iOS7 In MS Word
Vaclav Crejci shows off his Word skillz, duplicating the flat pastel design of Apple’s new mobile interface. We can do ‘bold’ and ‘underline’. MS Excel Pacman anyone? awesomer
View ArticleApple’s Mothership
A peek inside (and outside) Apple Campus 2 – approved for construction by city officials last month – the company’s proposed 2.8-million-square-foot mothership HQ inside a man-made forest in the...
View ArticleMisunderstood
Apple’s seasonal ad barely mentions the iPhone, instead reaching out deftly to grab you by the warm and festives. slyoyster
View ArticleThey Went Dutch
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Apple CEO Tim Cook in Apple’s European HQ at Hollyhill, Cork today for a private lunch meeting. ‘Double Irishes’ all round. Via Merrion Street Previously: Anything Good In...
View ArticleFor Apple Mugs
The iCup, a concept designed by Tomislav Zvonari features a matching spoon and USB link to your Mac that heats a pad on the saucer. Prospective buyers, you know who you are. ohgizmo
View ArticleFalling Far From The Tree
Apple Sales International, the Irish-based entity in charge of Apple’s international tax dealings, has never filed financial returns with the Companies Registrations Office in Dublin, but reported...
View ArticleSam Sung Blue
“I hope my old business card will go to another fellow Apple enthusiast with a sense of humor and the desire to help raise some money for a good cause. Although the auction is for my business card...
View ArticleiSpy
A video of the site where Apple is building its ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino, California, set to open in 2016 Trevor Mogg, in Digital Trends, writes: The site, which spreads across 176 acres, will...
View ArticleDoesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
A portion of an Irish Times Apple infographic. Paul writes: “The machine at the bottom looks like like an Apple II and the one above that seems to be the Original Mac. A geek fight is there for the...
View ArticleStop That
Illuminati handshake? Billionaire thumb bump? A triangulated ‘finger graph’ depicting the ”Ireland-Holland-Other Place’ tax wheeze? We may never know. Apple’s Tim Cook and U2 at the iPhone 6,/Apple...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....