Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased
Seems like an unnecessary criticism. It's an Apple fan blog, not journalism. Nobody is going to Apple Insider for balanced information about tech trends.
AppleInsider is really excessively biased, even for an Apple-focused site. I'm an Apple user from way back and I rarely find their opinion pieces useful.
> Nobody is going to Apple Insider for balanced information about tech trends.
Many people are going to click on an HN link and assume it's a reasonably objective technical source. I didn't realize it was an Apple fan blog until I was well into the article.
I like to think the average Hackernews is a bit more savvy than to assume all or even most links here are objective. Still, there's no harm in saying "yo dawg, this article has an agenda, so just be aware of that when you read."
Sorry if I don't know the background of every website on the Internet. There are a lot of people who use an Apple computer because they were the best choice at the time they purchased the computer, and might even have non-Apple computers they'd like to use also, not because they've been baptized at the Church of Jobs to fight in the Cook army to defend the motherland and conquert the rest of the world.
It isn't just that it was biased, but ridiculously so. It is sycophantic enough to make one wonder if it was a press release if I didn't know better that Apple the corporation wouldn't be writing these.
The praise is lavish enough and thin on substance to make it offensive to the taste if you were expecting any kind of real substance on Metal or direction for it.
Seems like an unnecessary criticism. It's an Apple fan blog, not journalism. Nobody is going to Apple Insider for balanced information about tech trends.