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Comment by izacus | Hacker News Reader

What a bizarre post considering all the pro-Apple smugness we see in Windows, Android and Linux topics. To the point where some of them are almost outright Apple ads.

Almost as bizarre as loyalty to a single brand even when they stop treating you well.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; there is smugness from all sides. There does appear to be a an awful lot more coming from the FOSS community, but perhaps that cognitive bias on my part, id suggest that what you see is the same.

The thing that confuses me is the name of this site. Start up workers became hackers then get to be smug because they overspent $$ on a shiny turd?

I can understand smugness from those who contribute/maintain (what I understood by FOSS community), I don't understand the entitlement money brings.

This. I'm well aware some of the comments I leave on the net about certain products (be it applications, os, hardware, tools, literally anything) might come over as smugness (though I do my best to just state facts without putting an extra undertone in it) but at least I realize that; it's just a natural reaction when you see something you like getting bashed - especially if that bashing is not entirely just or even completely wrong. But it's baffling to see people not realizing they're being dragged down by cognitive error and it makes them blind. We're humans, we can be thaught to self-inspect, it's unfortunate this doesn't get done in education enough.

> But it's baffling to see people not realizing they're being dragged down by cognitive error and it makes them blind.

I misread this initially and I suspect others are as well based on the downvoting. But I think what you mean is that impulsive and/or unconditional bashing is the cognitive error here, right?

But that’s just it: most Apple users do not feel that suddenly they are not being treated well.

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