You're certainly not the first, nor do I have any misconceptions that you will be the last, person to claim this. As my evidently readily accessible resume shows, I do not work for Apple, though I did for two brief periods in the past. To round out this "disclosure" I hold no stake in the company other than perhaps what might be part of VLXVX, which I haven't looked at all that closely.

But back to the point: I have not "suppressed" the comments; in fact I chose to respond in good faith to a fairly clear violation of Hacker News's guidelines (which interestingly enough happened to be an accusation lobbied at 'Improvotter, not me) as I am a bit reluctant to use the other tools such as downvoting or flagging. You're free to dig through my 13,000 comments if you'd like to discover cases where I have done this even when the topic is not Apple.

My bad, you worked for Apple.

Clearly there is a conflict of interest you didn't disclose.

That being said, I do agree the original comment in this thread wasn't appropriate either.

As I described previously, I don't think I have a conflict of interest. Bias? Sure, but I had one prior to being employed there as well. In many respects I think it was stronger then than it is now. That isn't to say that I'm not open to suggestions that I should make this more apparent, but I'm really not satisfied with solutions that would cause me to preface any comment on something involving a previous employer with a disclaimer, or shove my entire memoir of my life in my profile. People who actually care can find that information in seconds, anyhow.

thank you! and thank you Saagar for reminding me to policies. I just saw them. Either way, my point is simple. If a person pays for the device, they should have the right to do whatever they want with that device. A business should be able to replace with after market parts, just like any car (where I don't go to showroom to replace the original part, but after market because sometimes they are equally good or i could afford to break my glass twice instead of paying hefty for apple care! its that simple. I am all for freedom of choice as a user. If the business brands it as original iphone part, then they have the right to sue them, but in this case its not!

Now that's a comment in line with Hacker News's policies :)