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The rush to clear Apple's name, and the inflated indignation surrounding this mistake is embarrassing. Tesla is the only other brand where I see this behavior.

The rush to clear Apple's name, and the inflated indignation surrounding this mistake is embarrassing. Tesla is the only other brand where I see this behavior. I don't understand the evangelism of brands by people with seemingly no direct connection. The dude was wrong (Edit: turns out technically he wasn't wrong, Apple just "chooses" to not enforce it), get over it, Apple doesn't need your help - they have an army of attorneys who can squash any legitimate threat to their empire.

yalogin 6y ago
That’s an odd take, I think you are looking at it wrong. IMO, this is the hacker news community getting embarrassed. After all this is a community of entrepreneurs, where everyone has an app and many multiple, on the App Store and so we must have known how it works. No one is redeeming Apple here, if anything I am thinking how easy it is to fall into this groupthink hole and not even bother to check because “we” have to rail against someone because of perceived/alleged wrong doing against the whole community.
- josefresco 6y ago
  > this is the hacker news community getting embarrassed Exactly! Both posts are showing how reactionary and ignorant these supposedly brilliant entrepreneurs & engineers can be. At least on this thread, the second highest voted thread actually explains the issue clearly without hyperbole.
pwinnski 6y ago
This is not about Apple so much as it is about the HN community rushing to judgement based on... whatever prejudices and assumptions they/we had. Apple can be good or bad or irrelevant. The facts should still be the facts, and HN got the facts very wrong in this case.
hu3 6y ago
Plus I still don't see the point of this post. Apple is pointing a loaded gun at developers and we are praising them for not pulling the trigger. Apple simply chooses to not enforce (from the anecdotes known so far), but the menace still lingers in their ToS.

yalogin 6y ago

That’s an odd take, I think you are looking at it wrong. IMO, this is the hacker news community getting embarrassed. After all this is a community of entrepreneurs, where everyone has an app and many multiple, on the App Store and so we must have known how it works. No one is redeeming Apple here, if anything I am thinking how easy it is to fall into this groupthink hole and not even bother to check because “we” have to rail against someone because of perceived/alleged wrong doing against the whole community.

josefresco 6y ago
> this is the hacker news community getting embarrassed Exactly! Both posts are showing how reactionary and ignorant these supposedly brilliant entrepreneurs & engineers can be. At least on this thread, the second highest voted thread actually explains the issue clearly without hyperbole.

pwinnski 6y ago

This is not about Apple so much as it is about the HN community rushing to judgement based on... whatever prejudices and assumptions they/we had. Apple can be good or bad or irrelevant. The facts should still be the facts, and HN got the facts very wrong in this case.

hu3 6y ago

Plus I still don't see the point of this post. Apple is pointing a loaded gun at developers and we are praising them for not pulling the trigger. Apple simply chooses to not enforce (from the anecdotes known so far), but the menace still lingers in their ToS.