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My direct experience is that there is a lot of skepticism about Apple on HN, much of it warranted, some of it (in my opinion, obviously) careening into unwarranted cynicism. But my observation is that comments critical of Apple that are most likely to get downvoted are ones with a clear subtext of "anyone who uses Apple products is an idiotic corporate shill who doesn't know anything about technology and it is my solemn duty to preach the anti-Apple gospel." If you come in with a chip on your shoulder, people will be inclined to knock it off.

I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.

Just another anecdote - I regularly see commenters decrying the walled garden, etc. always with the addendums that they’ve abandoned all Apple products, don’t use Google search, and use Linux on their Thinkpad instead of Windows. I notice so often because I have a lot of doubts about the veracity of those statements.

I've never seen a struck out anti-Apple comment that didn't spend the majority of the comment preemptively complaining about downvotes and disagreement.