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You do a disservice to your own position by breaking the site guidelines so badly. This is in no way an acceptable comment, regardless of any bad things other people may be doing. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We've marked the GP comment off topic now. Certainly it was an example of a generic top subthread, which are the black holes of HN discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Between this and your other recent flamewar comment on the topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26994894), I fear you may be falling prey to the community-bias fallacy that I wrote about in a completely different context earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268490. HN isn't pro-Apple or anti-Apple — it has users who fall into both of those camps, as for any $BigCo, but unfortunately they each perceive the community as dominated by the other side, which leads to a lot of very bad flamewar comments from both camps.

Please don't post like that any more. Instead, if you see a generic comment taking a thread badly off topic in a predictable way, let us know at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html so we can downweight it. Giving us a heads-up in such cases is one of the highest-leverage things people can do to improve the quality of HN threads.