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noitpmederlast Saturday at 1:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Obviously you're being facetious, that is not at all what that poster is claiming.

While I agree that entering a dark alley shouldn't result in ill effects, if ill effects happen in said dark alley it is still worth the discussion to remind people to stay out of dark alleys in today's day and age (or until the root problem, whatever it is, is improved).

Pretending that it is OK to enter dark alleys and forcing blame elsewhere will continue to have people unwittingly enter dark alleys.


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lapcatlast Saturday at 1:47 PM

> While I agree that entering a dark alley shouldn't result in ill effects, if ill effects happen in said dark alley it is still worth the discussion to remind people to stay out of dark alleys in today's day and age (or until the root problem, whatever it is, is improved).

This is not a dark alley. It's the main street. It's the world we live in. iPhone has more than half the market share in the US and well over a billion users worldwide. Moreover, Apple, Google, and Microsoft collectively monopolize consumer operating systems on both mobile and desktop. Try going into a retail store and buying a computing device that is not running iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows. That's the reality for most people.

The dark alleys are the non-mainstream options that hardly anyone knows about.

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wiseowiselast Saturday at 3:13 PM

There are 1.5 BILLIONS of iOS users. Is that what you call a dark alley? This is a broad day, city center attack.

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