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> Either you pay what is required by law or you don't.

And according to the EC, they don't

That's not precisely accurate. The EC's ruling is that the Irish government changed the law in an unlawful way. There has not yet been an explicit ruling on Apple's conduct, as far as I know - that's likely to take more time (years...) to happen.

> That's not precisely accurate. The EC's ruling is that the Irish government changed the law in an unlawful way.

The ruling is that the Irish Government applied wrongly the actual law, no law has been changed

> There has not yet been an explicit ruling on Apple's conduct, as far as I know - that's likely to take more time (years...) to happen.

The investigation is not on Apple, but on the Irish Government. My comment about illegality was about the Irish Government practices, not about Apple.

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