> You know, it's frustrating when people just flippantly assume that someone who has been a professional Mac developer for 19 years could be so stupid. I'm not

> You know, it's frustrating when people just flippantly assume that someone who has been a professional Mac developer for 19 years could be so stupid. I'm not stupid. You are assuming they are assuming you are stupid. AFAICT they are only disagreeing with you. > So no, the argument does not hang on this one example. It's an argument I've been making since at least Mac OS X Lion, 14 years ago. You've inverted what the parent said. They were not suggesting the "merging argument" was hinging on your one UI complaint, but that you are hanging the "merging rant" on this UI adjustment: > As such it seems like a particularly strange adjustment to hang a "macOS is turning into iOS" rant on >> I'd assume that any logic that holds for it being a good idea when applied on iOS would apply just as well on macOS. > Why would you assume this? The two platforms are very different in physical characteristics. > This is a principal objection to merging the platforms, especially merging the user interfaces. What makes sense for a tiny touch screen doesn't necessarily make sense for a much larger screen with keyboard and mouse input. This is very disingenuous, you are taking the parents comment out of context and then generalising it in order to reject it where it's obviously going to be false. > I don't expect you to know my full history. However, I expect comments to follow the HN guidelines, which say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." In the very same post you have broken that guideline. You've taken the most uncharitable, inverted, and mis contextualized interpretation of the parents arguments, made assumptions about their characterisation of you, and thrown up roadblocks like hn guidelines in bad faith. Ironically the only way the parent has broken such a guideline is in the world of your missinterpretation of their arguments, it's as if you are trying to manufacture such a situation. It's difficult to believe you are not being disingenuous because your attempts to deflect are so excessive.