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> There are a lot of things to also hate about apples naming schemes

Which you’re free to do, and could have done without insulting the author. The submitted post’s very first sentence is “I love the way Apple names things”. The author likes them. They’re sharing a opinion, at no point do they imply they’re the voice of reason or that you should agree with them.

What I see from their post is someone who made an effort to build and share something interesting which makes them happy.

What I see from your comment is instant tribalism, where one can’t even say they like an inconsequential naming scheme without being labelled a “typical fanboi”.

Can we do better? Let people enjoy what they want, they’re not harming anyone.

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How is fanboi an insult in any way? A fanboi is a “slangy” term for someone that just follows something blindly without questioning it.

>instant tribalism

Im sure you feel similarly about anything related to Elon Musk, right?

HN circle jerks are so prevalent it's nearly transparent.

And the worse thing is that for any X, there are also many anti-X circle jerks and hate-bois with no self-awareness...

> they’re not harming anyone

That is to be proven. Encouraging and advocating practices that are counterproductive can be harmful.

Maybe you just don't see how one company is shaping the entire market because a group of people (we can call them fanboys for the sake of argument) insists that their way of doing things is "the" way. Which it of course isn't and we see how that is ruining products that try to compete. See win11 as an example.

> we can call them fanboys for the sake of argument

You don’t call someone a pejorative term “for the sake of argument”, you do it for the exact opposite. Insults are the antithesis of productive discussion.

> because a group of people (…) insists that their way of doing things is "the" way.

Which, again, is not what the author did. They didn’t claim Apple’s naming scheme was “the way”, they said they personally liked it. Period.

> a group of people (we can call them fanboys for the sake of argument) insists that their way of doing things is "the" way. Which it of course isn't

I missed this part in the tiny paragraph that says "I like these names"

Discouraging and disparaging practices that are helpful is also harmful. Have you considered that?

Also, Apple adopted these practices long before they had significant market share in any market. Nobody has been “forced” to adopt them in order to compete.

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