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QuickTime
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 14 threads.
People raised many different problems with QuickTime, 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 19 complaints
- Takes over as default app for random formats, showing an annoying splash screen2022-03-27
- Hard to manage on Windows: versions clash, it changes settings and bloats the system2022-03-27
- Non-native UI, bloated install, and it was incredibly slow2022-03-27
- Trimming UI is bad and encoding options are too limited2020-12-15
- QuickTime's interface feels bizarre and unwieldy to use2020-07-29
- Slow to start, unresponsive UI, and bogs down the system2017-01-19
- QuickTime's user experience is poor and frustrating for users2016-06-01
- Installed via iTunes updates by opt-out and silently hijacks file associations2016-04-16
- Hard to rewind a few seconds; requires steady hand to avoid jumping too far2016-02-04
- Files play out of sync unless opened in QuickTime, and VLC often fails to play them correctly2016-02-02
- Video page demands a QuickTime install before the video will play2012-09-12
- Updater keeps popping up and pushing installation of iTunes and Safari2011-12-30
- Trailers require installing slow, clunky software before watching2011-12-29
- QuickTime is a bad software experience on Windows, with no specific problem named2011-04-11
- Slow startup and erratic buffering, plus taking over many file types2011-04-11
- Programming codec plug-ins for QuickTime is painful due to legacy APIs2011-04-11
- QuickTime takes over .mpg files and plays in a tiny window with no full-screen option2009-12-16
- Movies in Safari can't be saved, Save As is disabled, and videos fail to play2009-09-09
- Crashes on conversion and takes days to convert a single film2008-11-13