iPhone Naysayers

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5 points·shawndumas··4 comments

On issues where there's a large contingent of passionate haters/supporters on either side, polarizing articles from either extreme drive page views. It's just business.

It gets old though. I've come to realize over the past few years that the stuff I spend my time reading on Hacker News does take it's toll in mental and emotional energy. Often a lot more than I realized. If there's anything I wish I could filter from my media intake, it would be both iPhone Naysayer articles and responses to iPhone Naysayer articles such as Jim's here.

This is an excellent point. It's amazing how worked up we ("we" the General Public) get over "platform wars" -- I remember arguing Super Nintendo over Genesis back in the day, and iPhone v. Android is just another iteration of that.

Bottom line, it's your money, buy what you want and what makes you happy.

Console wars are far from over, and they are still duking it out whether or not PC gaming is "dead".

Best to have friends who have the competing technologies to what you have so you get to enjoy all of it.

>I've come to realize over the past few years that the stuff I spend my time reading on Hacker News does take it's toll in mental and emotional energy.

So true.

I want pre-processor that can gauge the emotion of an article before I click through to it. A divining rod I could use to selectively steer clear of those taxing, tugging pieces in favor of more direct, digestable content.

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