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The Android fanboy behavior in this thread is absolutely appalling. People point out the logical inconsistency in wanting to lump Android together when it's a positive and split out when it's a negative and the result is mass downvotes? Disgusting. I'm at -5 on some of my posts. I wouldn't get that for calling someone a fucking asshole.

Some of you need to go reread pg's essay on ID.

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You seem to be trying to make some kind of wider point about "Android fanboys", and in so doing you're accusing people of making statements about Android sales that they haven't made, and are irrelevant to the OP.

In reality, all I pointed out was that a report about hardware failure should come with statistics broken down by hardware manufacturer. The other "Android fanboys" that you're similarly decrying said the same. Your point would be valid if we were also saying, at the same time, that good and crappy Android phones put together beat Apple. Which we aren't. This isn't about Android "winning" or "losing"; it's about failing hardware, which is highly relevant for anyone selecting a phone, regardless of whatever ideological position one might take WRT smartphone software.

>The other "Android fanboys" that you're similarly decrying said the same.

No, the people I'm calling "Android fanboys" are the people who mass-downvoted me for stating something they didn't want to hear. On reddit I would expect this and go with it. It's appalling to see that kind of thing happening here.

You didn't respond to my point, which is that you're derailing the comment thread by accusing people of saying things they didn't say. That's a perfectly legitimate reason to downvote a comment, and it has nothing to do with being an "Android fanboy".

I see plenty of well-reasoned responses to your claim of an inconsistency. Perhaps you need to learn that someone who disagrees with you is not automatically a "fanboy", and their responses to your claims are not automatically "appalling".

The downvotes, however, are not warranted.

You need to read what I wrote. I don't care about people disagreeing with me! I care that my posts got massive downvotes. I wasn't snarky or anything, I was stating what I see as an inconsistency and fanboys responded by just voting down all my posts.

I'm not calling people who see it differently than I fanboys.

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