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Please don't be so gullible, folks! When you see an article marketing a product, and they claim people are looking to switch to their product in droves, take it
by natch 10y ago
Please don't be so gullible, folks! When you see an article marketing a product, and they claim people are looking to switch to their product in droves, take it with a grain of salt!
This is purely a promotional article, pretending to be a help article. Look at the unattributed quotes it uses. Pretty sure the part about anybody switching from anything to anything is made up. Sure people switch sometimes. Sure people are complaining about Apple products, what else is new? Way to capitalize on our sincere discussions of platform choices.
If HN swallows this kind of marketing-masquerading-as-technical-advice article so easily, we're going to see a lot more of this writing pattern in the future. Which means more marketing noise. Please don't buy it so readily.
- Semiapies 10y agoDo you really think HN readers are so gullible as to not realize this, and that you are the only one to catch on?
- natch 10y agoI would never think that. But I was taken aback by many of the comments on this thread.
- Semiapies 10y agoWhich, the angry griping about how the distro makers want money, or the yammering about how Photoshop users should just cowboy up and submit patches to Gimp until they find it usable? As far as I can tell, the "gullibility" you think you're seeing is anyone responding in any way, even skeptically, that's not just covering their ears and going, "La la la, I can't hear your marketing!"
- Semiapies 10y agoApparently, some readers do think exactly this of all other HN readers...
- Klarbichu 10y agoI'm not sure what the problem is. It's an interesting link to an interesting article about an interesting operating system. Perhaps you don't find it interesting, but as a developer, I like it.