It is silly. Reminds me of the fanboy wars you get on video game sites between supporters of the various consoles.
I'm not a fan of Apple's business strategy or most of their products. But I have no hatred of them. Most of their stuff just doesn't fit my needs.
At the same time, it's not just a problem of irrational haters of all things apple. Apple also has a huge following of fanboys that promote and defend all their gadgets to the death. Just like the video game consoles.
Hard to have discussions without things devolving into flame wars between haters and fanboys, leaving the neutral people on the sidelines.