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Exactly! The fact that this has 300+ votes and is on HN's front page (and is just CONSTANTLY brought up on Reddit), should really tell you how fed up people are
by Someone1234 8mo ago
Exactly! The fact that this has 300+ votes and is on HN's front page (and is just CONSTANTLY brought up on Reddit), should really tell you how fed up people are with the iOS keyboard experience.
I legit feel like Apple should actually make a public statement like "we hear you, we're working on it!" because it is actually bad PR at this point.
- eptcyka 8mo agoI feel like the people who could move the needle don’t actually type on their iPhones, they pay someone to do that.
- LanceH 8mo agoApple is allergic to admitting anything. They go straight from "there is no problem" to "this update brings improvements".
- recursive 8mo agoThis new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type. It's an entirely new way of expressing yourself.
- alterom 8mo agoThis new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type — it's an entirely new way of expressing yourself. Works better with an em-dash to make it feel more like today's default ChatGPT style.
- eddieroger 8mo agoIts presence on Hacker News and Reddit tells you that the folks who use Hacker News and Reddit are fed up with the keyboard. Most people don't care. Tech nerds do, and that's not nothing, but it's not necessarily a majority either. No one I know outside of tech brings up the keyboard to me, ever.
- bornfreddy 8mo agoOnce you lose tech nerds, the battle is lost. Other users always follow them.
- echoangle 8mo agoBy that logic, Linux should be the most popular desktop operating system. But even most tech nerds realize that their needs are different from regular users and recommend stuff to them they wouldn’t use.
- array_key_first 8mo agoEveryone cares, most people can't express it because they're not techies and don't know what's going on. But the keyboard is straight up buggy. Everyone is just working around it. That's just how software works. People also care that the windows taskbar just kills itself sometimes. But they feel powerless, stupid even, so they just work around it every day forever and never say anything.