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Comment by smsm42 | Hacker News Reader

Couple of minutes ago I didn't know about Apple News and didn't care about a superstar architect. Now I still don't care about a superstar architect but already hate Apple News and Wired for presenting me with a link to an article I can not read.

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I just made a mental note not to click on any wired link in the future.

Or buy any Apple device (to the extent you can actually "buy" one, in the meaning of owning it after you have paid for it).

And also move to the US (or some other supported country, I couldn't find a list within 2 Google searches)

It would be nice if hacker news would allow you to block sites in your profile. I'd love to block any article on medium.com, wired.com or nytimes.com; they all seem to be empty fluff articles.

Wired's already a bad egg in my book for refusing to allow the first part of their articles in RSS and reader apps like Feedly. While every other website shows me the first paragraph in the app before I tap the link, Wired just gives their bullshit "This article first appeared on Wired" blurb

That's extremely annoying behavior. I get where they coming from - if you read excerpts on RSS you don't visit the site for that, so no ad impressions - but I usually just ignore such sites altogether. I have no time to click on every link in the feed to just know what it is about.

I can't imagine having to depend on Apple products. They just seem like the most unfriendly, restrictive company ever.

I use macbooks as my work machines for some time, and Mac OS X ecosystem seems to be open enough to allow productive work and most other uses without too much trouble. So they did pretty well there.

However, the mobile (and adjacent, such as Apple TV, etc.) story is pretty bad, I completely avoid it. I had an iPad which was a gift so I used it for a while, but as soon as I got Android tablet and smartphone I switched and never looked back. As for content services, I'd never go near Apple ones, I've tried to use iTunes, no more, thankyouverymuch.

BTW, last time I looked Apple TV 2 on ebay costs double of Apple TV 3. Because jailbreak.

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