Ad agencies usually present their plans to the client for approval before filming, and present the film to the client for approval before broadcasting.
It's not like this got broadcast without Apple's marketing team's sign off.
There was a joke. It was at least tangentially related to the article at hand. Then someone got offended and made the very first irrelevant comment here. He could have just let it slide, but no.
More irrelevant comments were made in response to the first irrelevant comment. Yours included. I really don't think people care to read about your opinion on what ruins the site here.
Does it really matter? Are we going to continue talking about this or just let the vote buttons do the talking?
I bet you don't want to just let my comment hang here and you'll want to say something else that is completely not relevant to the article, but you're going to have to in order to stop this madness!
That's the struggle that every HN commenter must deal with.
You're not supposed to talk about your downvote (or upvote) and just do the voting. If you can't downvote yet, just leave it up to someone who can. Another strategy is to upvote sibling comments so they go higher than the comment that you hate. If it's really irrelevant it will die. But it's difficult, as you can see. So that's where mods come in.
Are there? Are there really? Because my experience on the internet is a few happy Apple customers and a monstrous tidal wave of anti-Apple hate.
And it's a different kind of hate too. Apple fans like to criticize Microsoft and Google, but Apple haters generally attack Apple fans, not Apple itself. It's very disheartening.
I don't see the problem unless you think Apple gets bashed more than Microsoft or Google here.
Do you think Apple gets more than Microsoft on HN? Please read any thread with Microsoft or one of their products in the title and you'll see M$ get bashed every single time. Google gets it too, from plenty of people.
Anyway, they deserve everything they get. Each one of those companies have made large crowds of enemies for various reasons.
Complaining about company bashing in general is fine by me. If you don't like it and you don't want it on HN, then I'm with you. You're just defending Apple though and that comes off as tone deaf and severely biased to me.
In any case, I don't see the mods banning people over a little poke like this. So, if people like it and upvote it then you should probably just counter with a downvote and refrain from commenting and derailing the entire thread like this.
Sorry you got offended. I thought it was funny and relevant.
It's not a good joke because it's not original and is what you'd see in a YouTube comment. It's also not very funny because the premise of the joke, that Apple claims to invent things others already did never happens. Apple's presentations and PR communications are deliberate and rehearsed. If they do claim something in that vein, it's because it's either true or whatever the thing they claimed to have invented/innovated was sufficiently differentiated where a neutral third party would agree.
Usually when people make derivations of this "joke", what they're really responding to is that Apple is marketing or talking about something they did with their own take on it, and they just can't help themselves from pointing out that someone else did it first, even though the implementation may differ completely. The Touch ID sensor is one example that comes to mind.
Couldn't wait for YouTubers to make a video about this or you thought that your comment wouldn't make any difference in a sea of identical mindless comments?
Or if you prefer "thanks, after this I'm going to buy a Nexus 6p"?
