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This is the most strained connection employed to engage in Apple-bashing that I've seen in quite some time. I feel like we need an Apple-themed Godwin's Law -
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
This is the most strained connection employed to engage in Apple-bashing that I've seen in quite some time.
I feel like we need an Apple-themed Godwin's Law - namely that no HN thread is complete without someone somehow managing to bring up Apple and how evil and undervalued they are.
The irony is that high-end Macs have been widely laughed at by people who don't have a use for them...while various creative and scientific sectors gladly pay that expense because unlike the commenters they're actually using them to make money; for example, the G5 and first-gen Mac Pro had enormous memory bandwidth that made them ideal for a lot of scientific data processing, medical imagery, running instruments, etc.
- refulgentis 3y agoI've been here 13 years and am not aware of this pattern. Also, gently, note: > Not singling out Apple, I’m sure all are comparably bad, it’s just what I happen to use :) The Xcode thing is often an in-joke with iOS developers.
- sverhagen 3y agoYeah, feels like in a different era this criticism would've been levied against Microsoft/MSDN.
- kosolam 3y agoAllow me to wake you up: Apple is a marketing company that doesn’t develop anything, rather just buying IP. Their products are buggy and awful. Including and especially iphones and ios. Everything else is marketing.
- misnome 3y ago> I've been here 13 years and am not aware of this pattern. I’ve been here 11 years and see this all the time. This, however, is not an instance of it.
- refulgentis 3y agoI'm only aware of the opposite pattern
- sbuk 3y agoConfirmation bias? Yet here we are on a thread linking to a site showing an industrial underwater chainsaw, and someone has managed to connect it to tech (possibly, and normally hinting at the importance of FOSS) and managed to have a dig at Apple, Microsoft or Google.
- refulgentis 3y agoCorrect