Well if you ask a smart person to rationalize their relationship with a drug, their smart phone, they will say something logical and positivist, in a world wher

Well if you ask a smart person to rationalize their relationship with a drug, their smart phone, they will say something logical and positivist, in a world where your opinion about how a giant corporation screws another doesn't really matter. So it's not really comparable to partisan politics in the US. You could be right that people are conditioned to talk about things a certain way due to partisanship, but I really doubt that's why there's so many people out their taking Apple's side in a contract spat. Nonetheless some people have this drug relationship with Fox News. But while very few people on HN may even use Android phones, 100% of congress probably uses an iPhone. They probably use their iPhone ~4 hours a day. 0% use Fortnite (the average congressman probably plays less than 1 minute of Fortnite on average a day). Nobody's going to come out against their drug.