[wutbrodo]

I doubt it. All of bigtech gets the same deranged treatment: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

It was a weird moment when I found myself defending fb on hn more often than I criticized them (I think they're atrocious), but the comments on bigtech stories are just that stupid.

[dagmx]

I agree that all big tech gets it, and to be honest anything that’s not FOSS gets shit on a ton here.

But I do think Apple get it worse than other companies.

Android posts don’t get as many comments that range from conspiracy to calling users sheep.

Google gets ribbed for their ADHD but rarely criticized anywhere as much if Safari or Chrome both add their web proposals before standardization.

Apple hardware gets trivialized when performance comes up whereas Intel, AMD and NVidia get vaunted.

So I agree every big tech company gets railed on here, but I think Apple gets a disproportionate amount of it.

Before someone says it, That’s not me defending them as a company, it’s me tired of the terrible discourse on every post that mentions them. There’s lots of things that would be interesting to criticize them for and read about, but every thread divulges into the same exact community talking points.

[wutbrodo]

I suppose I haven't noticed that myself. Though I spend less time on hn than I used to, and the consensus on Apple used to be dramatically more positive, so it's possibly that colors my perception