Trust, all of that money wasn't earned abroad. Like other companies a lot of it was shoveled out of the U.S. into lower/no tax jurisdictions using "patent licenses" and other creative loopholes.
Create the technology in your home country, offshore the rights to it.
It's been done forever and it won't stop because people make blanket statements like "that money was earned offshore."
Gotta love a company that puts Cupertino on every product trying to draw away from the fact that it was made in China, only to keep their money offshore, too.
The back of an iPhone should say "Designed by Apple in Cupertino. Made in China. Your Money Went to Ireland."
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