You're missing the point. Nobody is complaining about people bringing up their issues with Apple products, nor is anybody suggesting that such behavior should stop.
Perhaps "The Barron" should clarify his point of post #31 then. I've re-read it again and I still interpret that as wanting those finding any fault with Apple anything to go away... as if this site would be much more what he/she wants it to be if it was all praise & rah-rah.
You on the other hand seem to be making a different point with...
Just today, I posted a thread about how Touch ID hasn't been working very well for me. But so many vocal complainers seem to have fundamental disagreements with the way Apple conducts business and the direction that the company is going, and never miss a single opportunity to turn thread after thread into another podium to proselytize whoever will listen. Which is certainly their right, but it boggles my mind why someone would continue to even consider buying products from a company that obviously chaps their hide raw. I sure know I wouldn't.
But even there, I doubt many come here solely to gripe about Apple. I think many of the complaints reflect care for Apple. Personally, I own a bunch of Apple stuff myself but I'll sometimes find great fault with Apple decisions. Why? Not to bash Apple for bashing sake (that would be a pointless waste of time). Because I wish Apple would deliver more, do better, delight me as their customer.
Apple tends to be a leader in one way or another. They've positioned themselves to deliver the "it just works", "magical", next big thing. So we expect it. And when they roll out iterative and/or buggy, we're disappointed. We doubt the competition can deliver the same kind of "wow" so we want it from Apple. But if they let us down, some of us are not so quick to look over it and/or spin it like we are paid Apple PR representatives.
If you posted a thread about TouchID not working well for you and it became a griping thread at Apple about TouchID, maybe there's some merit there to those gripes? How long has TouchID been out now? Still not working for you? Or maybe broken for you with recent updates? If either, that's not very "it just works" and "magical" Apple-like.
If a company sets high expectations and under-delivers, complaints will follow. If it's a small niche player, it won't have a big enough audience to have that many complainers. But if its a gigantic company with gigantic customer growth, it will have more complainers. Scale begets more happy and more unhappy customers. Apple is GIANT now.
In my business, I help my clients see constructive complainers as at least as valuable as "rah-rah cheerleaders". I often sling the phrase: if my house is on fire, I don't want to be told how nice my landscaping looks. Complaints are an opportunity to do better. Universal rah-rah is begging for complacency because everything is apparently perfect. Given the choice of the two, I'd rather have the former. But it's not the choice here. Instead, this site gets the mix of Apple can do no wrong in everything, Apple can do no right in everything and the middle moderates where I think the best discussion & debates are based.
