[xenophanes]

You're right but you also allowed them excuses to complain about you (which is very hard to avoid) and I don't see what you hope to accomplish. Someone is wrong on the internet ... so you corrected them and expressed how annoyed you get when someone is wrong on the internet about this? It's not your problem if they are wrong.

I think you rightly recognize anti-Apple non-argued insults as being as uncivil as your own comments. So it's quite unfair you get complained at for being uncivil while people don't acknowledge the stupid, insulting-to-Apple comment as already departing from civilized and productive discussion. But still, you aren't fixing any of this.

If your goal was merely to educated other people who read the comments, I don't think your comment was well written to accomplish that. It'd be more effective for educating third parties if it was 100% impersonal and only talked about the issue in a serious way. I think you were trying to persuade the guy you replied to, not third parties, but I think you already knew that wasn't going to work when writing your comment. So there's a bit of a contradiction there.