Bose headphones

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2018–2022), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Bose headphones, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Music plays from laptop instead of phone, and fixing it requires disconnecting laptop in app2022-09-07
Mic silently fails, user only learns they're muted after others say so2022-04-13
Audio cuts out or goes silent when switching between connected devices, with no user control2022-01-26
Switching sources requires manual unpairing and repairing, often taking minutes and failing2021-11-15
Setup requires many steps across phone, laptop and browser before headphones can be used2020-07-26
After headphones power off and on, sound only works after manually toggling Windows Bluetooth2020-06-14
Must fiddle with pairing mode to switch between devices2018-11-02