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Complaining about Apple and the MacBook Pro has become a pretty dominant topic on Hacker News from the last few months. I really do think this negativity about
by nilkn 10y ago
Complaining about Apple and the MacBook Pro has become a pretty dominant topic on Hacker News from the last few months. I really do think this negativity about the product has become excessive, and it's the first time I've personally been annoyed about something like this on HN in four years of reading the site more or less daily.
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Since my comment is abrasive -- much more so than normal for me here on HN -- I figured it was worth it for me to put some more effort into this and provide some evidence. I easily came up with the following list of topics here from the last month:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315262
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244357
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13251401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13251401
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253390
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13157832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13157832
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13172903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13172903
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13214754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13214754
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164534
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220623
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217008
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337727 (note that, while the headline is a bit general, much of the discussion is related to the new MBP)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169060
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185428
I just stopped after this point. There were more.
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- muninn_ 10y agoThanks. I even posted on some of these as I was caught up in the discussion, but the discussion is over. There's nothing new to be added right now, and certainly nothing new to be added by some random person's irrelevant opinion.
- Gigablah 10y agoWell, I guess we'd just have to go back to reposting Aaron Swartz articles.
- praneshp 10y agoHN is a cesspool of negativity. I can see how different people would be turned away by hate for Yahoo/Twitter doing badly, hate for fb/uber, constant jealousy against startups that had an exit in the past few days (pretending as sanity about valuations), etc. Thankfully there is a lot of positivity, though you have to look harder for it.
- tdkl 10y agoNah, it only shows the amount of frustration over it and fear for the future.
- treehau5 10y agoIt's almost as if....people are really unhappy and disappointed. Imagine being on a Muscle Car Enthusiast forum, and Ford released a V8 Mustang that had less horsepower than it's predecessor, and worse handling, but just came with minor stylistic upgrades. The same thing would be happening.
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- rvanmil 10y agoPeople love their Macs very much, hence all the venting. All they want is Apple to build them the proverbial faster horse.
- pyrophane 10y agoYou're right. There seems to be a group of people who really like talking about the new MBP, particularly what a travesty they feel it is. For the rest of us, it is an equipment choice that might have to make at some point, and the we'll go back to work on our code ;).