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frmersdog • yesterday at 10:42 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Respectfully, how am I supposed to feel and respond to a public call-out by a mod like this? (Over a -2, unflagged comment? Now I'm curious what nerve I hit.)

And to expound, in my defense: as a longtime Android device user, I recall often feeling stigmatized by the app developer community's treatment of things outside the Apple ecosystem as second-class. Arc's overly-enthusiastic media coverage, barely disclaiming or discounting that it was initially MacOS exclusive, reminded me of the worst of that from the mid-2010s. "Here is a product that is going to change the world, and give everyone superpowers, also you can't use it. :)"

I'd thought we'd left that behind.

So if this approach turned out to be a misstep that helped lead to the product's demise (alongside, bafflingly, and perhaps ultimately a bullet-dodge, the mere fact that a local browser can be sunset and locked at all), I'm not allowed to give my feelings on that? Is there really no productive conversation to be had about how a failed product rubbed potential users the wrong way?