surprising.
>> david kirkpatrick, weigh in
and give us a sense of your
reading of the tea leaves.
there is potential tax warfare
between the u.s. and europe?
>> it is a confusing situation
of where i think apple has been
extremely aggressive in how they
structure themselves when they
face these tax jurisdictions is
an interesting question, and
whether it is appropriate,
whether they should be fine
tuning their own structure when
they are simply trying to do
business around the world.
it is legal in the unitestates
at least.
it's turning out that may not
legal in europe.
where these companies have to
have a positive carrying of the
flag around the world, we might
consider whether it is to our
benefit.