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I'm an Apple fan who doesn't get the witch hunt, but I readily acknowledge Jobs glossed over the problem. The problem is that the problem ultimately wasn't much of a problem to begin with, but the haters keep looking for something to get angry about. I can't go a day on Hacker News without seeing several grossly uncharitable comments get a bunch of upvotes. Any other topic, and it'd get rightly voted down. It's extremely poor form for Hacker News, and it's started to make me pretty bitter. In fact, the only reason why I created an account was to fight back against the hate/FUD.

I believe that there are a number of strong, charitable, level-headed criticisms you can make about Apple. I don't have a problem with those, and appreciate it when people make them. But that's not what we're getting here. What we're getting is a bunch of snippy and sneering quips from people who don't bother to examine the range of possible reasons why Apple did X, instead always assuming that they did X just to be manipulative jerks. It's just crazy.

I like Hacker News a lot, but this has really been souring the experience.

Edit: And look at how I get anonymously downvoted. These guys can't even argue in their defense. They just maliciously downvote.