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Comment by varvar | Hacker News Reader

When was HN into excusing Apple? It's pretty much run of the mill apple emotional hate club.

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"Apple finally has shown their true colours and no form of hardware or software advancement will push me to use their products. Can you imagine the world without Linux or BSD alternatives? What a nightmare."

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Yep. Emotional Hate Club. After 20 years of using their products may be I know something more than a regular Apple wannabe in 2020. In 2006 paying equivalent of 4000EUR in cold cash for a laptop was no small feet in my country - actually this was a price for very good second hand car at the time. And surprise: it was worth every god damn penny. Since then all of my office computers and computers of my staff are made by Apple. For a long time this company offered a perfect blend for any kind of production. Since the big success of the iPhone things slowly faded away. At first Apple killed Studio Suite, then made Final Cut Pro from professional software to semi pro kids toy, started telemetry without user consent (I use Little Snitch from second version of the software, etc), touch bar nonsense, keyboard quality nonsense, repairability nonsense and still no good web camera. But hey, M1 will change everything. For good.:) In the future Apple will be old IBM on steroids. Personal Gatekeeper for common good. Enjoy your prison kids, war is peace - freedom is slavery - ignorance is strength.

Well, nerds get mad when you take away controls that existed for.. ever. Is your individuality perfectly expressed through the system preferences that Apple thinks you should have or through exercising your UNIX nerd cred by opening the hatch and messing with the guts? :)

It always seems a pretty even mix of anti-Apple & Apple apologists.

It would be a fun project to run an sentiment classifier against Apple related comments to see what the ratio actually is.

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