Just as much as the success of the iPhone shows the effectiveness of a giant pro-apple PR machine present in the world.
Which was generated by Apple code? Round we go..
Who is involved in these types of conspiracies anyway? Are there Android "fanboys" that short Apple stock and then go on the Internet and... do what exactly?
It'd like to introduce you to this crazy person (I can't tell if they are joking or not, but they followed up with even more crazy, so I don't think they are joking): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914414
I guess I don't really buy that that rhetoric is what caused "Apple Maps sucks" to be a meme for the last month and a half. I mean, are you saying millions of people were conned into thinking it was inferior to Google Maps?