You obviously don’t understand the role of sports in American culture. Or how the major television networks operate.

Sports events sure, opening ceremony? They are just going to get highlights on YouTube mostly.

Dude just about all Americans watch the Olympics on normal network TV, in this case NBC. What are you talking about?

Over the air? I was surprised to find out stations still broadcast over the air.

Just because it’s network television doesn’t mean it’s over the air. Cable television also carries the networks.

Who under 40 or 50 has cable anymore?

It’s funny because it’s true.

Do you want to know how I can tell that you did not read the hacker news guidelines.

The entire point of the article is about the Mac mini sales flying through the roof because of this.

Uh, that escalated quickly.

Actually it's been escalating pretty steadily for 250 years

This is called whataboutism. This particular feature aside, sometimes there are very good reasons not to throw the kitchen sink of features at users.

The hacker news guidelines forbid you from suggesting someone has not read the article. Please do not participate in this forum with such conduct.

This is a good example of a comment taken completely out of context to indicate something that’s not true at all. Take a look at a chart of gold. Crash of 10% makes it sound like gold depreciated a lot.