It's difficult to be objective when you gave thousands of dollars to that corporation in product purchases or stonks or have an inexplicable emotional attachment to their products. You now have skin in the game. Hence the Apple defense mob on HN.
It's not the people's fault they loose access to the tech if Apple hasn't paid the ones who invented it. Apple also has access to the tech, they need to pay for it, and not sell people tech they don't have rights over.
The ITC decision will not require Apple to remove the functionality from anyone's devices.
Doctors' work is also a net benefit to society, yet we still pay them handsomely because nobody works for free, nor do companies develop IP for free.
If Apple cared about the net benefit to society or at least its customers who buy their products, they should have just paid to license the apropriate IP. It's not like they're short on cash.
I’m not saying that happened here - but it might have. Most patents are dumb.