No, I am not an Apple fanboy, quite the contrary. As a developer I am very critical of their attitude and decision making. I think they really suck at some things and have been very vocal about it on HN and elsewhere. That does not mean that I would automatically vilify them for everything.
HN is very interesting at times. Most of the time you get positive feedback when you are for Apple and for politically Liberal points of view. However, sometimes the poles reverse and North becomes South. This is rare when Apple is the subject. I guess in this case it was as simple as not understanding what the comment was referring to, which can happen if someone doesn't actually read the original article in the first place.
Note that the FBI is the supposed source of the leak here. So let's say Apple claims they gave up the data at the request of the FBI to supposedly help with a classified terrorist threat that the government won't have to reveal at trial. Who's going to sue Apple, and for what?
Unless Apple-or-any-company was seeking assistance from the FBI to track down fraud or something similar.
With the reply you've just sent and you seriously question if the parent is unbiased? Do you frankly consider yourself biased? Could it be that you're an anti-apple fanboy?
I indeed am, sometimes. And my post was biased, it was a bit of a bait. I can do the apple-fanboy as well though, if the topic calls for it.
On a more serious note though, I think Apple doesn't give a fuck about privacy- things like saving geolocations, the DRM in iTunes, unique device identifiers and stuff like that really makes it look like that at least.
..."shit HN says", right here.