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Comment by CubicleNinjas | Hacker News Reader

Can we end these articles please? They're link bait.

Apple users are wildly happy according to surveys. The platform is still the strongest dev environment is Apple's history. The tradeoff is reduced control over your hardware and software. Not perfect, but concessions are made.

The use of metaphors is always what rings false though. The 'crystal prison' or leaving users in the 'dark'. Users are given a touch device that talks to everyone on the planet, can download things for 100 pennies, and becomes more useful with time. User don't see this as a dark prison in any way.

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That's a pretty callous take on a story that discusses how a tool designed to help children with autism got taken out of the App Store.

May want to click the link first next time.

This is the third or forth rewrite of this same content seen on the frontpage on HN in 24 hours. It is link bait.

I keep seeing this argument pop-up. That we should just ignore Apple because it makes their users happy. Or

"whining geeks have no affect on Apple and it's users, we should just stop paying attention to them" Obviously, that's wishful thinking. Computer experts will always pay attention to what most people are using and the markets that drive it, and other people who care what smart people think will continue to seek their opinion, because they are right.

Not really interested in why this has become a standard tactic by some... but it's not gaining any ground, so you can just stop it.

Where did I say ignore? I just asked to stop with the skewed metaphor.

I respect people's wariness, but if they feel this way there are dozens of alternative options. Much better to promote them than to rag on what other people enjoy.

It's not just about having alternative options, or "hating that people enjoy Apple" about doing things an effective and efficient way. Being efficient is something we all care about because we're all on the same planet. Being locked into a certain vendor's way of doing things is a Bad Thing™, and definitely not efficient. We already learned this with Microsoft... I guess everyone has to learn the hard way that not caring about your tools, paying someone else to care, and then expecting them to "just work" is not a effective way to do anything.

This is pure nonsense.

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