They won't face a fine, although the EU may require Ireland to collect the "rightful" taxes. In any case, I was objecting to the article summary which states that "EU regulators are set to accuse Apple..." which is misleading, at best.

The EU never made such a statement and never levies fines in such cases even if the action turns out to be illegal.

This is another case of breathless reporters doing their best to get clicks by accusing Apple of something, anything.

Have you ever noticed that on Slashdot there are no good ideas?

The world would save so much time and money if they would just talk to Slashdot before trying to invent things!

Oh my. Hate much?

The Finnish are not famous for making things up.

You are absolutely right, of course, but Apple would not release an "iWatch" unless these obvious problems have been sufficiently mitigated. That's the magic.

You do understand the concept of "fiction", do you not? These movies and stories didn't "show" anything except for the author's creativity and the movie company's ability to smell a winner.

Honestly, I am so tired of humanity confusing movies with realityl.

China has not banned any Apple products. Some were not included in the "green" catalog because Apple failed to submit data.

It's not just ROI. Other viruses cause way more death - like HIV - and should receive the bulk of our research money and attention because of that simple fact. Compare the death rate from HIV in Africa to that of Ebola and you can see it just makes sense to put resources on HIV.

Ya know, I meant to add the same comment for Hispanics. I've seen and hired one Hispanic programmer, also pretty good.

In my 30 years of software management, I was presented exactly once with a black candidate, and I hired him. Excellent programmer and co-worker. I don't know why, but there just aren't many black candidates. How can we achieve parity if there are no candidates?

I'll be darned. Cheapest product sells more units. I wonder who's making the most money?

As I understand it (could certainly be wrong) the whole hypothesis for "dark energy" was created to explain the reason why the Universe's rate of inflation is increasing. Also, I believe we have, so far, been unable to prove its existence except through this increasing speed of inflation.

Wouldn't negative gravity obviate the need for dark energy?

Could someone explain to me how a "walled garden App Store" is crushing small developers? Exactly what about a walled garden does this?

A traitor is a traitor is a traitor. Whether or not he's also a "good guy" depends entirely on your politics.