If you haven't already, I would encourage both of you to read the guidelines of posting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

If you have already read them, treat my comment as a reminder to be respectful and try to generate stimulating conversation, not wage battles.

I suppose this is a good opportunity to plug my userscript which lets people filter out HN submissions by title, user, or source:

https://github.com/booleandilemma/hn-blacklist

In this case you would use a filter of: "title:apple".

> Easy enough to do! Just skip over the Apple articles on your HN front page!

I am an Apple developer, so I would like you all to stop buying Apple and I can get an honest job....