I would imagine the downvotes are because of the 'super secret walled garden, full of itself' comment, which is negative in tone. You could have said instead so

I would imagine the downvotes are because of the 'super secret walled garden, full of itself' comment, which is negative in tone. You could have said instead something like, 'As someone that knows people who've worked at Apple, I doubt many of them would know the answer to this or be allowed to post here if they did.' https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html