Nope. That was Benedict.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/world/europe/vatican-pope-twitter/
He did use an iPad to post the tweet.
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Tim Cook Visits Europe to Meet EU Antitrust Chief, Pope Francis and Italian Developers
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Nope. That was Benedict.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/world/europe/vatican-pope-twitter/
He did use an iPad to post the tweet.
Isn't this mixing up two things? Europe doesn't care about US taxes, Europe cares about EU taxes. They don't like that Apple is trying to game EU nations against one another...
Keeping profits outside the US is a different issue, and one that the EU is probably perfectly happy with.
...global warming caused by the increased iPad and iPhone production in China. And of course they discussed charity, i.e. how you can avoid taxes in the EU.
Does the 1.4 million includes developers who created a single app (or even just registered as developers)? The definition of "job" is a little sketchy here.
Not only that! They receive also taxes:You missed the joke..... The church does very well avoiding paying taxes also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
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Which part of America? In the U.S. big companies and also smaller companies have their own "app developer centers". Why should Apple reinvent the wheel in the U.S.?
Can someone help me to figure out where do "1.4 mllllon jobs" numbers come from? It seems an enormous amount to me.
The definition of job creation is always sketchy. If the dev who only made one app worked every day in the same cafe, allowing that cafe to hire another waiter, for example, then that's two jobs. Or two fractions of a job, depending on how you count and which fraction of the job gets credit for creating it.
Always take "created x jobs" with a grain of salt. "Employs x workers" is only marginally more well defined...
Lol. Without wishing to get too OT I think you're vastly overstating the Pope's significance there and especially it being "one of the most important diplomatic exchanges in modern history". That comment is laughable.
Just because the US finally got over its spat with Cuba that the rest of the world got over and stopped caring about decades ago hardly qualifies as important on the world stage currently, let alone "most important diplomatic exchanges in modern history". You can thank the confluence of the switch to Raul Castro and Obama who is more diplomatic than recent US presidents for this. Fidel probably couldn't forgive the US for trying to kill him so many times, and I probably wouldn't either.
The Pope is powerful among those unfortunate enough to be afflicted by a particular strain of The God Delusion, nothing more and nothing less. In the world of geopolitics, Vatican City and its religion have never been less influential "in modern history".
I doubt there are many other world leaders willing to meet Tim Cook unless signicant investment is involved.
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The pope and Cook are pretty much the same. Surely Tim knows how to meet the people of its kind. You want to believe they are religious people he's meeting with, the other is called reverend. I would not get into that part.
I'd rather be American and question things than be a gullible European serf and look down on Americans questioning things.
Ha, I'd forgotten about Cook being gay until you pointed that out!
For the record, Pope Francis said, regarding gays, "who am I to judge?"
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/pope-homosexuals-who-am-i-judge
(quote at end of article)
And there's nothing wrong with that. Eric Schmidt would agree
Well there is, but luckily in the corporate world their are literally no morals, anything goes to make a sale.
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So yeah, the vatican/"pope" has no morals. What's new?
Haha oh soo right!
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This is also an example of how money can overcome stated attitudes towards sexual preferences until, of course, the money goes away when the stated attitudes will return. This is also an example of the complete falseness of smiles and handshakes. You might note that both parties have lost the ability to smile instead going for a type of strained grimace that could be loosely interpreted as a long forgotten friendly, facial greeting. The eyes, of course, retain their ability to beam out the underlying devious, devilish malice.