In case it’s not entirely clear: I was referring to HN guidelines. Accusing others of acting in bad faith is never helpful. I will continue to remind others of the rules, no matter how often they’ve been broken in the past.

Cool. Yet this behavior (and worse) is widespread and not being punished by moderators except for the most blatantly obnoxious cases. Guidelines are only relevant to the extent that they are enforced, otherwise they're just a wish list, not a code of conduct.

Speaking of good faith, a good faith reading of their comment would be that they think Apple is intentionally maintaining a non-standard connector for their smartphone range despite knowing that switching to USB-C would be beneficial to their users.

Alleging that Apple acts in bad faith hardly seems like a violation of HN guidelines. If anything, the claim that they put the needs of the users first would seem the preposterous one as one would expect them to be beholden to their shareholders (and thus profit) above all, not their customers, and there are plenty of reasons why maintaining their own connector might be more profitable.

“Putting the needs of the users first” is but one tail end of a Gauss curve, and is certainly not at all what I claimed.

“Acting in bad faith” seems like the opposite tail end to me. There’s still a huge bell-shaped curve in between.

Accusing people of acting in bad faith is impolite. Accusing companies of acting in bad faith when there is ample evidence of their wrongdoing is one's duty as a consumer.

Ample evidence for Apple’s wrongdoing? Yes.

Ample evidence for “Apple […] fucking with us all on purpose, just because they can?” Please elaborate.