People downvote you, including myself, because you're disrupting a thread by discussing the semantics of the word 'despised' in an impolite manner than brings nothing to the story.
Being right or wrong has little bearing on what is a rude and unnecessary derail.
Come again? What could be more self-indulgent and irrelevant than posting to the root of a thread announcing your opinion that a company that makes shiny gadgets is "despicable"? And you're down-voting me for pointing that out? What?
Being right or wrong has little bearing on what is a rude and unnecessary derail.