I know him as the guy who made his webserver respond to everything with a ballsack in an eggcup if your Referer is hacker news. Seems childish

Not really sure what this means. I’m not really aware of anything I’m missing out on. If you don’t want to use their cloud storage (which you have to pay extra for) there’s no need to have an apple account. All the apps I use work fine locally

You don’t need to use an Apple account with Mac computers, and it doesn’t even try very hard to convince you to either