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60 Minutes on Sunday aired an Inside Apple special with correspondent Charlie Rose that included interviews with a number of Apple's senior executives alongside closer looks at Apple's secretive design studio, camera lab, mock next-generation Apple Store and under construction Campus 2 project.

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The segment revealed that Apple senior director Graham Townsend leads a team of 800 engineers and specialists working on the iPhone's camera. Townsend showed Rose a micro suspension system that stabilizes the camera when its owner's hand shakes, and explained how Apple engineers calibrate the camera.

800 people working just on the iPhone camera?

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Posted by kywildcatfanone

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 1:42 pm to iPadThai

Are they all in China?

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Posted by idlewatcher

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 2:16 pm to iPadThai

Watched it last night - was a great piece.

Takeaways:
1. THey are building a huge arse circular HQ's to house 13,000 employees

2. Their CEO is gay which I didn't know
3. They still have child labor issues
4. FOXCONN installed......get this......nets to catch the potential suicidal folks. Cool but creepy. I wonder if people are going to peek our their window to see if anyone jumped.
5. Apple continues to dominate
6. Oh.....and they have $200B overseas that they won't be bringing back anytime soon due to our outrageous taxes

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Posted by MrSmith

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 2:19 pm to idlewatcher

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THey are building a huge arse circular HQ's to house 13,000 employees

Bigger than the fricking pentagon

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Posted by MightyYat

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 2:38 pm to idlewatcher

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6. Oh.....and they have $200B overseas that they won't be bringing back anytime soon due to our outrageous taxes

Yep. They said China alone is 2/3 of their entire customer base. That's crazy. The story of them setting up subsidiaries in Ireland to avoid the international money being taxed was really interesting. I had no idea that was a thing.

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Posted by lsujro

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 2:50 pm to MightyYat

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Yep. They said China alone is 2/3 of their entire customer base. That's crazy. The story of them setting up subsidiaries in Ireland to avoid the international money being taxed was really interesting. I had no idea that was a thing.

pretty common for american companies to do this. ireland has very favorable corporate tax structure

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Posted by CubsFanBudMan

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 3:03 pm to MightyYat

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The story of them setting up subsidiaries in Ireland to avoid the international money being taxed was really interesting. I had no idea that was a thing.

I didn't see the story, so I don't know exactly what was said, but I'm sure it was more than just international money that they were avoiding paying taxes on. I bet the companies is Ireland own a lot of patents that the US company pays royalties to, moving money out of the country and avoiding US tax.

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Posted by Spock's Eyebrow

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Posted on 12/21/15 at 3:14 pm to CubsFanBudMan

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Ireland

The EU has been investigating the legality of Ireland's deal with Apple, which was to pay 2.5% in tax instead of 12.5%. If they rule against them, Apple could owe 10 years of back taxes at the higher rate, as much as $19 billion.