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> Can anyone at Apple (or perhaps formally at Apple) explain why this is the case?

Apple is a super secret walled garden, full of itself. From my experience with people that work there, I doubt any of them would even know why (let alone come out here to explain).

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I didn't downvote but can see that some people might, in addition to what was previously mentioned, be upset by the vagueries of "From my experience with people that work there..." We don't know you - how many people do you know who have worked there? What were there roles (or thereabouts)? It's just so vague that I can't really derive any value from your post.

Could you explain the downvotes? I'm new to HN and would like to learn.

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

Snarky comments (like 'full of itself') tend to gain downmods just for that. It's a lot softer than it used to be, though - it used to be that using the lightest touch of humour would also bring the downmod brigade. HN is becoming a much more generic "tech and this-article-I-saw-on-nytimes" site.

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