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No, I didn't spend time on it at all. Apple does not interest me.
Which explains why you are here, commenting on an article about Apple's lead designer.
I structurally read most comment threads on HN, even on subjects that I don't care about to see what's going on in the world of software and hardware without having to go and work with each and every device and piece of software out there.

Part of my job is to stay informed about lots of things that I don't have direct experience with, there is simply too much out there for any individual to experience directly.

So I use HN as a time-saving device, the collective wisdom and time invested vastly exceeds my own and it's not rare at all to find that HN comment threads are more informative and correct than the articles themselves. FWIW if a subject does interest me I'll read the article too (obviously...), and plenty of times the HN comment threads make me change my mind about what I should be interested in.

The effect of this is that I can state with some certainty why apple does not interest me without investing a chunk of cash and a large amount of time first.

Of course that wasn't what you were after, you'd like me to admit that I'm secretly interested in apple after all. But there isn't a single apple product that I'd like to own or use (I have an ancient Imac here that's been off for more than a year now), I don't want to buy an 'experience', I only believe in being able to run whatever software I want on the hardware that I own. As soon as I need to jailbreak a device in order to be able to really use it you can safely count me out and OS/X is not such a large step up from Ubuntu that it makes me want to run a different OS on my desktop than on my servers.

So as far as I'm concerned Apple is not (currently) interesting to me.

None of that screed explains why you felt compelled to threadshit with "not worth 10¢ to me". You are able to "structurally read" to see what's going on without such comments, surely.
Because the GGGP asked 'who wouldn't pay $3 for this'.
I think it's implicit in the premise that only people who are interested in the topic would be prepared to pay anything to read something on it.

The charitable interpretation of his question would be "who, of the people who find this topic interesting, would not be willing to pay $3 for it?".

The question you are presumably structurally answering is "why wouldn't absolutely everybody in the whole world pay $3 for this?". In answering that, you were either being insulting to GGGP, or looking for a pretext to wedge in an "I don't care about this" comment. I suspect the latter.

Apple is a fascinating phenomenon. It rightly interests everyone; investors, economists, managers, consumers, and from the look of this thread, even those who it doesn't interest. :)
> The charitable interpretation of his question would be

and

> I suspect the latter.

Interesting to see how selective you are when using that charitable interpretation technique.