Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot, e.g. by including swipes in your comments, posting in the flamewar style, etc. We ban accounts that do those things. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

What's the issue here? Didn't you see OPs reply? He/she didn't feel flamed. Why did you?

From a moderation point of view the issue is that you've been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

In the case of the GP comment I think the point where you crossed the line was "I love how you just keep on sounding like an advertisement just before you repaet again that you are NOT an Apple-Fanboy". That's the sort of flamewar swipe we definitely don't want here. How the other person feels about it in any given case isn't dispositive; the problem is the effect such comments have on the ecosystem as a whole.

Flamebait comments are still flamebait even if other people resist taking the flamebait.

This reply is a typical case of "failing to see the forrest for the trees".

You're so focused on specific features that you don't see the total picture. For normal users the significant feature is that it just works better: better integrated, better usability, better support. And through the integration they've replaced entire companies too focussed on a single feature as a product.

Even, or maybe especially, for technologists Apple should not be a joke, but something to admire. They do a lot of impressive technical stuff that should awe techies: just replacing intel by a home made cpu with no impact to users other than hugely improved battery life and speed?

> Even, or maybe especially, for technologists Apple should not be a joke, but something to admire. They do a lot of impressive technical stuff that should awe techies: just replacing intel by a home made cpu with no impact to users other than hugely improved battery life and speed?

As a person who used to work at Intel a long time ago in a non-design/architecture role... It is unbelievably impressive what they've done. Maybe it was always going to happen so there's nothing Intel would have done, but it must sting.

It's so hard to plan chips 1/2 years in advance and predict what the market will consider impressive, etc. They really nailed it.

They're also about to massively win with NVidia open sourcing their linux drivers, games-on-linux finally becoming a thing with Proton, etc.

> Nope. That's Saudi Aramco and that's actually a company which doesn't need advertisement. You HAVE to buy their product.

Corrected -- you're right I should have said they're one of the biggest companies in the world. Wiki has them @ #6 by revenue.

I'd disagree on HAVING to buy their product long term, but for now it's certainly true that most of the world runs on fossil fuels.

> I love how you just keep on sounding like an advertisement just before you repaet again that you are NOT an Apple-Fanboy :D

Well I'm glad the prose is advertisement quality! I was certainly growing in my praise, but I think they deserve it at least a little bit.

It's funny because I realize full well that they're android-ifying themselves a bit (customizable lock screens), but it's done in the typical apple way where I think most people will never run into a problem with it, and it will feel intuitive/look good.

> PS. in the IT tech world I live in, having an Apple device automatically leads to becoming a target for all kinds of jokes (which is why nobody has one) but maybe I just don't understand what "technologists" actually means.

Yeah we probably just live in different worlds, no problem with that!