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Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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fordh wrote: post #61
briandear wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not defending apple for not paying artists, but I will defend their 'weaseling' out of US taxes. U.S. Corporate taxes are among the highest in the world and until Washington starts lowering their confiscatory tax rates, I would encourage all businesses to avoid repatriating earnings. A 10% tax rate is high enough.

I was curious and looked up this claim. Turns out PolitiFact looked into it: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep/09/... The conclusion: Bolling said the United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world." He was referring to the statutory rate, meaning the rate before deductions. On that score, he’s right: The United States does have the highest statutory rate among developed co…

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Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by aikah »

morganvachon wrote: post #33
x5n1 wrote: post #25

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Taylor did not write that... at least I don't think that she did.

You'd be surprised. I'm not a fan of her music (if I had kids they probably would be) but she's very hands-on with her image and if it's on her tumblr page, she wrote it. I respect her as a person and from what I've seen she's very intelligent and articulate.

She absolutely didn't write that, she has an entire PR firm at her disposal. The same way most politicians do not write any of their speeches. Do you really think most "stars" directly manage their "own" tumblr,facebook or twitter accounts? of course not.

Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by MrScruff »

contentfairplay wrote: post #54
contentfairplay wrote: post #36

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> Can anyone at Apple (or perhaps formally at Apple) explain why this is the case? Apple is a super secret walled garden, full of itself. From my experience with people that work there, I doubt any of them would even know why (let alone come out here to explain).

Could you explain the downvotes? I'm new to HN and would like to learn.

I would imagine the downvotes are because of the 'super secret walled garden, full of itself' comment, which is negative in tone. You could have said instead something like,

'As someone that knows people who've worked at Apple, I doubt many of them would know the answer to this or be allowed to post here if they did.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by vacri »

jws wrote: post #50
mnx wrote: post #11

It seems really weird to me that apple would get away with paying nothing for the 3 months. Especially since it's not like they are anything but yet another competitor in an already crowded space.

This whole "pay nothing" idea is strange to see on HN. Apple developed the software, is footing the server, power, bandwidth, and ops bills for three months all for free. The labels are chipping in their content for three months. Sounds like everyone is bringing something to the table. Apple is incurring real costs. The labels, not so much. Three kinds of customers will try the service: People who buy their music: th…

> Apple is incurring real costs. The labels, not so much.

It's really weird that you specify "developing the software" as a real cost, but not "developing the music".

Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by jokoon »

It's a sales move of apple to get people to use their product, and immediately make it paying to get new subscribers.

It's crazy how the industry leaders are so prevalent compared to the people they employ.

Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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briandear wrote: post #40
nemik wrote: post #30

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From http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2015/6/13/apples-cash-dilem... it seems like Apple may not actually have the cash to do this, not in the USA at least and it would need to pay taxes on the cash it is holding outside the US to pay the majority US labels/producers/artists. Not that this excuses what they're trying to pull here or anything. By trying to weasel out of paying any US taxes, they can't spend their own…

Not defending apple for not paying artists, but I will defend their 'weaseling' out of US taxes. U.S. Corporate taxes are among the highest in the world and until Washington starts lowering their confiscatory tax rates, I would encourage all businesses to avoid repatriating earnings. A 10% tax rate is high enough.

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Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by mhenr18 »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #39
sarreph wrote: post #3

> These are not the complaints of a spoiled, petulant child. I am starting to doubt that Taylor Swift really is as 'representative' as she wishes to portray, and not simply greedy, considering the extent to which she avoids non-profit-maximising revenue streams (e.g. Spotify).

She avoids Spotify because they wouldn't let her music be only available for paying users. Basically, she refuses to be ad-supported, or give her music away.

Doesn't that logic mean she should pull her music from all radio stations?

Re: To Apple, Love Taylor

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Post by sauere »

> Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.

It is safe to assume that max. 10% of the subscribers will be in this 3 month trial. You will make money from the other 90%.

Also, just a little industry insight: Taylor makes $1.5m+ at each concert, plus travel, hotel, technical rider. I have a very hard time understanding all this cry baby talk.

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