[Someone1234]

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.

[LanceH]

Apple is allergic to admitting anything. They go straight from "there is no problem" to "this update brings improvements".

[recursive]

This 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]

This 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.

[tormeh]

Do robots wear turtlenecks?

[alterom]

Dunno, but they surely are weighted a lot to sound like some people who do.

Perhaps it's just a natural case of convergent evolution when the fitness function is bullshit at scale.

[eptcyka]

I feel like the people who could move the needle don’t actually type on their iPhones, they pay someone to do that.

[eddieroger]

Its 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.

[array_key_first]

Everyone 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.

[bornfreddy]

Once you lose tech nerds, the battle is lost. Other users always follow them.

[echoangle]

By 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.