I respectfully disagree. No matter how arbitrary or obliquely bad of a decision Apple makes (supporting mass-surveillance, adding a notch to a laptop, buying out the entire 5nm node from TSMC), there are people on this site that will defend it. These people represent the majority of interactions I've had on the subject over the past year, because anyone who criticizes the dominant culture of the site gets run out of town on a rail. Every attempt I make at good-faith discussion around Apple ends with accusations, dogpiled downvotes and completely off-topic flamewars. I'm not the sort of person who cares about those things, but denying that they happen? It's in every $BigCo thread, every day. Without healthy skepticism to balance blind support, meaningful conversations cannot happen. When we fail to hold companies accountable for their actions, innovation dies. As this is a site made for entrepreneurs and starry-eyed startup jockeys, I think fostering discussions around the shortcomings of bigger companies opens the dialogue around creative solutions and novel products. Some people treat this site as a place to do battle for their favorite companies though, which ultimately harms the quality of discourse and reduces us to nothing more than tribal warfare.

Of course you're going to get pushback when you post grand claims, provocations, and outright flamebait like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344580. Your own posts are generating it. That's not evidence of bias in the community, it's a reflection of what you're doing on the site.

Please stop that. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that keep doing it.