And yet it is exactly as dickish and disrespectful of others. Just like Apple as...

shinratdr · on July 13, 2011

Meh. Treating developers and the back end gingerly results in no benefit for consumers, in fact by and large it results in in a pretty clear loss.

Characterize it however you wish, as a user I'm going to go with the platform that focuses on pleasing me rather than making the lives of other users or developers easier.

sid0 · on July 13, 2011

I agree with Kant here: when deciding whether an action is right, one should consider what would happen if everyone started doing it.

Also, you're a dick. Congratulations.

shinratdr · on July 13, 2011

I'm a dick for buying products that work best for me and not other users or developers? Ok... I thought the Hacker News community was supposed to have a modicum of maturity?

sid0 · on July 14, 2011

You're a dick for buying products that actively negatively affect other users and that would lead to chaos if everyone bought them, yes.

shinratdr · on July 14, 2011

It would lead to chaos if every device retained the IP it used on that AP previously? Yeah that sounds like hell, imagine the horror.