/shrugs
Companies try to do stupid things and end up with egg on their face all the time.
They'll backtrack from this and people will forget it ever happened in a few months.
Companies try to do stupid things and end up with egg on their face all the time.
They'll backtrack from this and people will forget it ever happened in a few months.
I am unconvinced they've lost it. There is a lot of noise right now, but how much of that is coming from people who already hated Apple?
Out in the real world, even people who've heard something about this largely don't care. It's a tempest in a teapot -- granted, a little larger than usual, but it's easy to fall into the fallacy that everyone else should care the way HN does about something. And this topic seems to be pretty divisive, almost political in nature.
Kinda reminds of GOT and the biggest mistake of the "good guys", they left the dead dragon in the ice which then later burned down the wall and accomplished the "impossible".
FB might use this to crush Apple in the future.
Remember, Google was so nice and held in so high esteem that even valid criticism could be downvoted mercilessly.
Today you can run a karma farm on criticizing Google here on HN.
Google had mountains of goodwill, but with smart people, dedication and hard work one can burn true it like they did.
I'm afraid Apple can manage this too...