Very true when each user is accessing its own encrypted data directly. But from what I read here in the comments, Apple is managing encryption on their own HW, which almost surely means that data is read and wrote from Apple’s machines.
Such aggregation of read and write calls across users makes access traffic patterns analyses risk fairly minimal...
As a French entrepreneur, I was advised several times to move my HQ to the Netherlands because of the extremely low taxes on intellectual property.
The HQ can invoice european subsidies/entities for the usage of the brand as well as the IP of internal software or patents. You calibrate this so that European subsidies makes little to no profit, so you don’t pay any local tax. Then, what amounts essentially to the profit of all your European subsidies is brought back to your NL headquarters under “revenue from intellectual property” on which you pay ~ no tax (I’ve been told around 5%).
I’m not an expert in taxes and I have not looked into this in details so this may all be wrong, but it’s advice we got from top 10 EU lawyer firms.
It was presented to us as a tax “optimisation” scheme.