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I find it hilarious how certain people on HN are so pro-corpo. You get a feeling like Apple is part of their family, not a monopolistic giant just needing one e
by newbie578 3y ago
I find it hilarious how certain people on HN are so pro-corpo. You get a feeling like Apple is part of their family, not a monopolistic giant just needing one excuse to permaban you from their services.
- esarbe 3y agoThat's because HN is the private playground of the venture capital tech elite and those who are courting them. Most of the people here would love to be Apple and to abuse the shit out of their users rights in order to make profit. This is not Slashdot.
- MagnumOpus 3y agoA good proportion of these people have the majority of their multi-million dollar wealth tied up in a single on of the FAAMG megacorps, or in a stock portfolio heavily invested in them. As they say, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it". Even the ones that are not outright shills and cheerleaders often exhibit motivated reasoning...
- adastra22 3y agoI don’t own any Apple stock. Nor is my finances in any way dependent on Apple or other big tech. I don’t even work in software. I just think my life is genuinely improved by having access to Apple products, and find the blond hate and uncompromising takes in this thread to be just as baffling.
- matwood 3y agoI do own some Apple stock, but agree. Maybe I'm old school, but if I don't like a companies product I just don't buy it. This isn't a situation where anyone has to buy Apple products. ~65% of the EU has done just that. The whole blind hate is very weird to me.