[InsideOutSanta]

Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction. This is getting traction.

I'm pretty sure the author realized that Tim Apple isn't shaking in his boots, looking at the numbers going down. That's not the point, the point is that it's funny and interesting and thus getting attention.

[hnlmorg]

Is this getting traction? The front page of HN and some meta-debate is a pretty low bar for what I’d consider traction if I were a one of the richest companies on Earth.

[latexr]

> Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction.

Nonsense. Complaints about Apple’s declining software quality get a lot of traction on HN. Here’s another example from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008

And lookie here, what was submitted within one hour of that post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996575

This exact same submission! Which didn’t get any traction then. The traction this is getting has little to do with the quality of the post, it’s popular because it’s another thread where we can air our grievances.

[lolpython]

Why so agressive? You're making a conclusion from a tenuous correlation. I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. Judging by the other comments here a bunch of people are in the same boat. I've been complaining in my social circle about it and have partially switched to Android as a result.

[InsideOutSanta]

There are dozens of blog posts about this, and this one is trending on HN.

Anyway, why are you so upset about this? Why are you calling my comment "nonsense" and obsessing over this counter? It's clearly having an effect on you, which was its purpose. Realistically, another post about Apple's borked keyboard should create zero emotional response, yet here we are.