This is hot off the wire: a Windows-centric gaming company that gets kickbacks from MS for deploying to their platform has made fun of Apple Inc. This may terrify some people, but please try to control your _shock_ and _disbelief_.
So the first comment in the actual article is someone howling that GTA4 was made on Windows by Windows fanatics who hate Apple, and now the first comment on Hacker News is the same thing.
Is this some sort of ingrained reflex?
(Also, I can't assume you've played any of the GTA series, but if you do you will note that everything -- EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD -- comes in for heavy-handed cynical satire. The game's humor is not biased at all, just completely nihilistic and venomous.)
It wasn't an attack on Rock Star's games. I'm a big fan of them (People who know me are quite familiar with my infamous, "Operation: Boat In A Crowded Street".
It shouldn't be a surprise that they make fun of Apple, the have no financial fears from doing so they way they would MS. It's basically non-news, the same ho-hum jokes we've all seen before. I was disappointed it made it to the front page.
Conspiracy theory? That requires a lot more people.
I'm just saying, Rockstar has been making fun of Apple publicly as easter eggs in their games for years. I know some employees who say the general culture of the company rejects Apple. They also don't sell games for Apple software, which means there is no fear of monetary rejection.
It's more the comment on the complete lack of news and how disappointed I am that this story made it to the frontpage than the claims of a conspiracy theory. Looks like I accidentally laid the irony on too thick and people thought I was the Apple fanboy contingent.
The thing I love about GTA4 is that the entire game is just one giant parody. It's great! :)