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Comment by Vervious | Hacker News Reader

Misinformation really does spread like wildfire. Even with the number of naysayers on Hacker News we still seemed to have had a lapse in critical thinking.

I've been wanting to get into research on the study of the spread of tweets like this. Anyone have pointers for reading material?

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I have sold apps on the App Store for a decade now, and I have to admit I did believe the original tweet. I was going to go through the financial reports during the weekend to verify, but the initial reaction was “of course they would do this, it’s Apple”.

The fact this tweet is so believable says something about how poorly Apple has been treating its developers the last decade.

Or it just says something about confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias is usually as a result of previous behaviour allowing us to make assumptions about how something would respond/act. Confirmation bias in this situation is because it sounds in line with how Apple operate elsewhere.

Such an awful comment.

Not an Apple user nor developer, but damn, 30% seems above reasonable ...

same like all Apple pricing, no? Seems just above reasonable, rubs you the wrong way, yet you still go for it. Sort of perfect from their perspective

CPC Gray had a video on why rage/anger related materials spread around internet.

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.

We? No the standard Apple haters did what they do and rage as soon as you hear the word Apple but this is not the entirety of HN acting this way.

“Apple haters”, or Apple customers who have blown tens of thousands on Apple equipment over the years and have noticed their (relatively) recent focus towards maximising their revenue instead of being focused on producing good products.

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”.

If you found the tweet credible then why did this come up now? When they were testifying before congress? That’s because it wasn’t credible. And the pattern is, some news about Apple comes out, people rage BEFORE getting the entire story, then later learn the truth and calm down. In this case it was a matter of hours.

> the pattern is, some news about Apple comes out, people rage BEFORE getting the entire story, then later learn the truth and calm down

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)_/¯

Well next time perhaps look a little deeper. It was pretty obvious to me the poster doesn’t know much about this process. This would’ve come up years ago, this should’ve been a red flag to anybody believing it. But hey, people miss facts all the time. However the specific problem here is why this person didn’t get the facts prior to posting. With how quickly people react to fake news is dangerous these days. So maybe do yourself a favor and play devils advocate next time. Also scroll down in this comments section to find your ragers.

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