That was actually my point. For some people, hating Apple is an end in itself. As pg says:

"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."

People like this let Apple define them not because they do whatever they say, but because they do the opposite of everything they say.

To me this is the most weird/frustrating thing... that a comment like yours doesn't get made in one of the many many many bogus attack Apple for no reason whatsoever threads, but if someone dares to post a legitimate complaint in a humourous way (by which I mean the original article, which was pretty funny through use of satire)... they get trampled all over by the people who say they hate people talking about Apple so much.

WTF???

People whinge about all sorts of stupid things about Apple, the most illogical crap. Admittedly I haven't seen anybody complain about the one mouse button thing in about ~2 years, so hopefully that meme has died a horrible death (and not a moment too soon, even in 2009 it was well and truly past its use by date by at least 10 years). Other people just make shit up and accuse Apple of their own twisted fantasies.

But there are genuine things to complain about. Especially as a developer. And I don't mean the pseudo-random Apple accept/deny policy of what it puts on the app store. Yes, if you are one of the (large) handful of people who got rejected, or even worse strung along for months and then rejected, you have a legitimate right to complain. But to the 50 million other people weighing in? Eff off. No seriously, if you have no skin in the game then your opinion doesn't count.

Developers really do get the raw end of the stick when it comes to dealing with Apple in so many different ways, but even then the people who complain have gone through some bizarre reality distortion field. They complain about things like the 30% cut on apps Apple makes as distributor. Which is just damn bizarre, because that 30% is an absolute frickin' godsend to the small/indie developer. Have the people who complain about Apple's cut never even tried to find out what the software developer gets as their cut on boxed software sold at retail? I guarantee you it ain't 70% (!!!!)

As for their latest evil draconian move of Apple to completely dominate the Apple market... yeah. Look, I admit it, I have no skin in that game. I don't subscribe to anything that costs money, so my opinion is invalid, but I will say that I tried to understand what the big deal was, but all the haters were raving so incoherently that I couldn't understand what the key issue was.

So I figured it was just business as usual. Random people saying weird shit about Apple, and making complaints that were illogical and didn't make sense.

Go and tell them that they are boring. Please. Don't bring that weak sauce into a discussion with an actual genuine intelligent basis.