Really? I was literally calling out a "company" and an individual jumped in and I responded to that and now you are jumping in the middle and trying to teach me how I should see it? Is Apple attachment this strong around here? It just doesn't make sense to me. Is it some kind of cultural aspect of something? (And I respectfully want to make it clear here that these are rhetorical questions, I didn't really mean to ask them, and I do not hate you or that other HNer, it's just feels/felt weird).

There isn’t much apple attachment on display in this thread. You should recalibrate if that’s what you are reading.