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Comment by mdonahoe | Hacker News Reader

You pay $35 to remove a mild annoyance. It is definitely not for everyone. Neither are macs

You know, that's an excellent point. A good number of folks I know who own macs, simply are the sort of folks who would pay $35 in pursuit of "form". I tend to forget about that.

If you've ever seen the results of someone banging a SD card at a bad angle while in the machine, then "form" has value.

I'm going to take a guess that you don't know many non-IT people.

Because the majority of the general public care about how how something looks and works. Whether it's the car the drive, the clothes they wear, how their house looks etc. Most people care about form.

Eh, I'd say it's about 50/50.

You say it makes up half of the purchasing population, and you also say that you tend to forget about them?

Sounds spurious.

This post summarizes what I personnaly find wrong about Hacker News.

Ridiculous apple fanboys and total ignorance

And your post summarizes what annoys me about people who still throw around "apple fanboy"; you're in an endless witch hunt to find some kind of subtext in what people say just to call them out for their choice of computer. There was nothing in what mdonahoe said to suggest "fanboy".

Grow up.

I don't want to start a flamewar here but "Neither are macs" sounds somewhat arrogant to me, serious and honest question am I the only one to think that?

Edit to comment about the depth limit: I can't comment any deeper. (Karma related?)

No depth limit that I'm aware of.

There is a time limit to the depth - this is to help prevent pointless bickering.

"neither are macs" isn't, I think, arrogant nor judgemental. A person can buy a Mac if they like that kind of thing, but if they prefer other stuff they can buy other machines. Each person decides what's important to them.

About the device: I don't like the way that micro-SD card adapters stick out the side of the case. I'm not sure I dislike that enough to pay $35, but if people have that kind of spare cash I'm not going to piss and moan at them about it.

Notice how careful I am to avoid mentioning any actual thing that may influence a purchasing decision? That's how frustrating and pointless these conversations can be. :-(

Re depth limit, hit the permalink for the comment and you can usually reply that way. It's something to do with caching I think.

I cant comment on LoneWolf's reply, but I agree with his point. It was not my intention

edit: so is there a reply depth limit?

If there are a lot of replies in a short time, the reply link goes away for a bit to moderate the discussion. You can always reply from the comment's permalink.

As much as I might enjoy starting a fight, I'm sure we'd both just get downvoted until we can't read what we said anymore.

I wasn't trying to be snooty or anything with my remarks. I just meant that there is a market for a wide range of seemingly ridiculous stuff in this world.

In a land where people pay big bucks to have double eyelid surgery, inject toxins into their lips, and buy intentionally "distressed" furniture, a slightly better-fitting SD Card adapter doesn't seem so absurd.

Did you reply to the wrong post? There was nothing resembling fanboyism or ignorance in the parent.

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