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Comment by Gorbzel | Hacker News Reader

Guess what? No one does or should care about your opinion of Apple’s software restrictions or corporate philosophy here.

As per the article, those visiting the comments were primarily interested in discussion about JIT performance, comparisons between ARM and x64 instruction sets, GameCube/Wii emulation, etc.

Instead, every single post on HN even tangentially involving Apple is taken over by these self-important haters and their mindless takes, which are often full of false assertions anyhow.

You are a platform war spammer and nothing more. It’s a shame the admins won’t put a stop to this, as it’s turning Hacker News into a vehement cesspool for discussion.

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You do a disservice to your own position by breaking the site guidelines so badly. This is in no way an acceptable comment, regardless of any bad things other people may be doing. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We've marked the GP comment off topic now. Certainly it was an example of a generic top subthread, which are the black holes of HN discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Between this and your other recent flamewar comment on the topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26994894), I fear you may be falling prey to the community-bias fallacy that I wrote about in a completely different context earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268490. HN isn't pro-Apple or anti-Apple — it has users who fall into both of those camps, as for any $BigCo, but unfortunately they each perceive the community as dominated by the other side, which leads to a lot of very bad flamewar comments from both camps.

Please don't post like that any more. Instead, if you see a generic comment taking a thread badly off topic in a predictable way, let us know at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html so we can downweight it. Giving us a heads-up in such cases is one of the highest-leverage things people can do to improve the quality of HN threads.

Totally agreed. It's kind of pathetic.

The only reason apple was able to pull of the M1 transition the way they were able to is BECAUSE they have such control over their ecosystem.

Windows / Microsoft tried with itanium and ARM with much less success.

The platform war folks always take the most negative view possible, cannot even IMAGINE why apple might have chosen the approach they chose.

Well, M1 is what happens when you control your platform. PowerPC / Intel / ARM -> this control has let apple evolve dramatically.

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