The superfans seem to be alive and well, at least here on HN. Just open some arbitrary thread here about a bad Apple policy decision.
Last instance of this that I noticed was the sudden, unannounced loss of support for self-signed certs for IMAP ("totally reasonable, who still uses those anyway?"), but there were earlier threads, e.g. about the possibility of 3rd-party clients for IMessage ("huge security risk!") etc etc.
I find it noticeable, became there is often such a jarring difference in those threads to the usual prevailing stances of the HN community on those issues. I'm pretty sure, Google, Microsoft or Facebook would be raked over the coals for the same decisions.
Apple fanboys earned their mockery, but the pendulum is definitely in the other direction right now (at least on HN). Simply disagreeing in Apple's favor on anything is enough to be branded a superfan. I get accused of it, and I've never even owned an iPhone or Mac.
In this thread, the anti-Apple replies lean much more toward the childish internet-shitposting style that is atypical of HN. E.g.:
"shilling"
"simping"
"I see your reading comprehension skills seemed to have magically changed yet again in the last five minutes."
Last instance of this that I noticed was the sudden, unannounced loss of support for self-signed certs for IMAP ("totally reasonable, who still uses those anyway?"), but there were earlier threads, e.g. about the possibility of 3rd-party clients for IMessage ("huge security risk!") etc etc.
I find it noticeable, became there is often such a jarring difference in those threads to the usual prevailing stances of the HN community on those issues. I'm pretty sure, Google, Microsoft or Facebook would be raked over the coals for the same decisions.