I was mistaken in my original (now deleted) tweet and have been corrected by a few people
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund the refund happens as you’d expect. I don’t know where I got the idea that it worked the way I thought it did
https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721?...
I've been wanting to get into research on the study of the spread of tweets like this. Anyone have pointers for reading material?
I continue to use Apple products every day as my daily drivers, and can’t see that changing. Im writing this from my iPad Pro. I’m probably buying 2 new iPhones this year despite them all being too big. I haven’t bought a new MBP in a while as my 2015s meet my current needs better than the new products do.
I found the original tweet totally credible.
I feel more like an “Apple sucker” than an “Apple hater”.
I found it credible. I upvoted the post. I then learnt the truth, and posted that I found the original tweet credible.
There's no rage. There's just me, a long time Apple customer, finding a falsehood believable.
There's more nuance to the world than just 'Apple haters' and 'rage'. You don't have to be an 'Apple hater' to fall for this. You don't have to have been 'raging' to have fallen for this. You can just be (like me) stupid, and happily admit that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TDLR: Materials that cause anger/ rage make people want to reshare it at higher rate (I want to do something) vs positive materials that make you feel good.
My thought was to ask HN editors to run some kind of a correction post, because these angry people had learned of this “fact” here but never saw the follow-up comments. Since @twolivesleft already has a correction post up on Twitter, I just posted that on HN instead.
It remains to be seen if this post does well on HN. I'm afraid it won't, because personal embarrassment isn't quite as fun to spread as anger against billion-dollar companies.