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Bruh we bag on Apple constantly about Right to Repair, their app store monopoly, and destroyed them over their phone scanning shit. We regularly BEAT on Apple.

Bruh we bag on Apple constantly about Right to Repair, their app store monopoly, and destroyed them over their phone scanning shit. We regularly BEAT on Apple. Obviously the app we all noticed was...Google Drive in that list! /Edited: I forgot, we also bag on them constantly about WFH, and their piss poor record with bug bounties. There are probably some I'm forgetting.

iab 5y ago
I could listen to people complain about Google Drive all day
techrat 5y ago
> We regularly BEAT on Apple. From my direct experience, anyone who speaks out against Apple's restrictive, walled garden approach and anti consumer practices gets downvoted hard and mass-flagged 'round these parts.
- Talanes 5y ago
  I've never seen a struck out anti-Apple comment that didn't spend the majority of the comment preemptively complaining about downvotes and disagreement.
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- chipotle_coyote 5y ago
  My direct experience is that there is a lot of skepticism about Apple on HN, much of it warranted, some of it (in my opinion, obviously) careening into unwarranted cynicism. But my observation is that comments critical of Apple that are most likely to get downvoted are ones with a clear subtext of "anyone who uses Apple products is an idiotic corporate shill who doesn't know anything about technology and it is my solemn duty to preach the anti-Apple gospel." If you come in with a chip on your shoulder, people will be inclined to knock it off.
  - techrat 5y ago
    I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.
- sjtindell 5y ago
  Just another anecdote - I regularly see commenters decrying the walled garden, etc. always with the addendums that they’ve abandoned all Apple products, don’t use Google search, and use Linux on their Thinkpad instead of Windows. I notice so often because I have a lot of doubts about the veracity of those statements.
swiley 5y ago
HN as a whole only very recently started to "beat" on Apple. Before 2021 it was a lot of "well maybe there are two sides to Apple curb stomping both devs and users."

iab 5y ago

I could listen to people complain about Google Drive all day

techrat 5y ago

> We regularly BEAT on Apple. From my direct experience, anyone who speaks out against Apple's restrictive, walled garden approach and anti consumer practices gets downvoted hard and mass-flagged 'round these parts.

Talanes 5y ago
I've never seen a struck out anti-Apple comment that didn't spend the majority of the comment preemptively complaining about downvotes and disagreement.
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chipotle_coyote 5y ago
My direct experience is that there is a lot of skepticism about Apple on HN, much of it warranted, some of it (in my opinion, obviously) careening into unwarranted cynicism. But my observation is that comments critical of Apple that are most likely to get downvoted are ones with a clear subtext of "anyone who uses Apple products is an idiotic corporate shill who doesn't know anything about technology and it is my solemn duty to preach the anti-Apple gospel." If you come in with a chip on your shoulder, people will be inclined to knock it off.
- techrat 5y ago
  I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.
sjtindell 5y ago
Just another anecdote - I regularly see commenters decrying the walled garden, etc. always with the addendums that they’ve abandoned all Apple products, don’t use Google search, and use Linux on their Thinkpad instead of Windows. I notice so often because I have a lot of doubts about the veracity of those statements.

swiley 5y ago

HN as a whole only very recently started to "beat" on Apple. Before 2021 it was a lot of "well maybe there are two sides to Apple curb stomping both devs and users."