Products · Broad category
Smartphone operating systems
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2022–2024), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Smartphone operating systems, 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 4 complaints
- Users are constantly bombarded with tips, popups and notifications about new features2024-09-16
- Updates make phones sluggish and barely usable, and often break things2023-10-14
- Updates start on their own at wrong times, blocking the phone when the user needs it2023-09-20
- Installing community-made software and maintaining things yourself is artificially made extremely difficult2022-04-10