This is general "tracking beacon / tribe idol" hate.

For specific Apple hate, I have a different rant: about how Steve Jobs founded a more pernicious cult than Scientology, brilliantly adapting the lessons of previous efforts while improving their efficiency, by dispensing with the humility and humanity that had hampered others.

That being said, I agree with the sentiment of no phone in the sense that they don’t truly add much from a quality of life perspective when you are away from a computer. They just try their best to distract the hell out of you.

You are presently in a thread titled "Ask HN: Why are Android phones such a scam?"