Apple announces plans to repatriate billions in overseas cash, says it will contribute $350 billion to the US economy over the next 5 years

It said it expects to pay about $38 billion in taxes for the horde of cash it plans to bring back to the United States. This implies it will repatriate virtually all of its $250 billion in overseas cash.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/01/apple-accelerates-us-investment-and-job-creation/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/apple-announces-350-billion-investment-20k-jobs-over-5-years.html

In 2016, then president-elect Donald Trump publicly called out Apple's reliance on its Chinese supply chain, telling The New York Times that he would "get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States."

Corporate tax should be paid where the money is made, and after that shouldn't be taxed when moving across borders.

How completely altruistic of them.

Time to acquire some companies Apple! Get Tesla, SpaceX, American Express and Nvidia, diversify a bit.

Maybe get into the games business too.

Most of those either go directly against or at least doesn't add to Apple's corporate philosophy (they create an ecosystem that their users have to exit as little as possible, all tied in with their hardware).

SpaceX for that matter isn't even a publicly traded company, and Elon Musk personally owns 54% of all shares outstanding, and controls 78% of the voting power. The odds that he'll sell are about zilch. Heck, even Tesla would be difficult to buy even if they wanted, with Mush owning 22% of all shares.

No it won't because since they've been forced to pay ireland 13BN they've invested billions more into Ireland and show no signs of slowing down. Fair play to the eu for standing up to them.

Anyway maybe trump isn't so bad after all. He should try and get a tech hub going in Detroit and get these companies coming back to America giving employment to places that need it the most. 

Why force a tech hub in Detroit when you already have several thriving tech hubs in the US?

Oh look... The evil tax bill is at work again.

They work well with their corporate philosphy,if they ever had one, just as much as Beats did. For instance, American Express cards, Apple(Tesla) cars, Nvidia(for gpu and AI purposes). SpaceX? Just because it's such an innovative company which could rule space exploration and global hyper fast travel (with their rocket travel concept) one day. Basically making everything from your phone, to your credit card and car, to your travel means serviced by Apple. They would not be a trillion dollar company, but several trillions.

All those would add tremendously to the Apple brand. And I'd make Elon Musk the CEO of Apple, if he so desired.

And yeah, basically the only thing that would be missing is ruling the living room, which could be fixed with a TV and console.

Tesla is the only one that makes some sense for Apple, but even then, Apple might be better served spending 80 billion dollars to develop an equivalent if they absolutely want to make cars.

Nvidia is a "parts" company, similar to Samsung, in that it supplies chips to everyone. That is very un-Apple. Integrating AmEx into Apple is just creating a service Apple already offers - Apple Pay. It adds nothing to their ecosystem.

If you're after trillion dollar companies, Apple will be the first, but if you're after multitrillion dollar companies, I'd look to Amazon, Google, Alibaba (out of currently know ones).