I happen to love Apple, Lisp, and NoSQL. I also like Google, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C, and consider myself pragmatic. Make what you will of that. And yeah i

I happen to love Apple, Lisp, and NoSQL. I also like Google, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C, and consider myself pragmatic. Make what you will of that. And yeah it's Saturday and I'm reading HN. I'm not telling AppleInsider to stop being AppleInsider, not sure where you got that from. I am talking to my fellow hackers here, making a plea for a little bit of sanity and discretion. (Sorry about my ranting, I tend to rant when I'm annoyed. I don't want to harsh your mellow but maybe my ranting ain't for you to read, bro. It's Saturday and you're on Hacker News you dig? This isn't Facebook, or a drum circle on the beach.) Is it such a stretch to imagine that maybe, just maybe, Apple bought Siri because they thought it would make the iPhone more useful and not because they wanted to "kill" Google? I mean, why even post this drivel to HN? How are we supposed to have a moderately intelligent discussion about some ill researched and ridiculous claims made by some guy who hasn't heard of Yelp, and an informal poll of 40 people? edit: And yes I'm aware that Steve Jobs had it out for Google. That doesn't mean that everything Apple now does has to be with the sole intention of hurting Google. If you think about how many people own a iPhone 4S in relation to how many use a PC of some kind then the idea that this minor dent in Google's search revenue is going to somehow kill Google is beyond laughable. I understand seeing this crap on AppleInsider, but not on HN.