It’s true, but at the same time Apple are currently trying to win over the developer community. That much was clear over the M1 announcement where they focused on compile times and tensor flow as benchmarks.
Corps like Google or Apple are so big that the amount of HN customers and their friends/relatives are a drop in the ocean. This is just a PR mess for them, that's all.
You and I - we are the market. How do you know how many drops there are if you don't speak up?
Relative to my community in South Africa, I have spent more money on Apple products than anyone I know. And here I am saying that if these privacy issues are not resolved, I am willing to vote with my wallet as soon as I can find an alternative.
I only mention that I've de-Googled my life so that those who doubt my intent will know it's not an idle threat. These things take time to change, but they can and do change if you make your voice as a customer heard.
When you want to enact change at a Big Co:
1.) Communicate why you are forced into a buying position and ideally how to resolve it.
2.) Be willing to walk away, or you can't negotiate.
The interesting thing about this community is that technically it could create its own OS. That is a threat to nation state level institutes that want to prevent that.
I agree with the sentiment, but I also think designers and builders of all kinds ignore the most advanced users at their peril regardless of if they're HN, some game's best players, someone who uses a library in production instead of as hobby, etcetc.
The impact is just different and sometimes causes big issues if ignored
There are more than 1,000 people and it's a sampling of a larger population. There are more developers and technical savvy people out there than just the ones who use HN.
You and them are the market if you happen to be the only two customers of a company or the only customers for specific goods. Hopefully you see now why your statement was ridiculous.
