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Sony products
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 12 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 Sony products, 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 11 complaints
- Things are hard to find and slow to reach even when the location is known2026-04-16
- Takes over 30 seconds to boot even just to eject a disc2025-06-30
- Windows file browser is basically unusable on the monitor2024-06-23
- Couldn't tell why purchase failed; the real error was hidden from the frontend2022-03-16
- UI requires extra steps and makes dangerous mistakes easy to make2020-01-07
- Long-pressing text on the page does not let the user select it2019-03-30
- Interfaces were focused on looking cool rather than being usable, making devices hard to use2017-04-10
- Eject takes a long time to respond, making users wait before the tray opens2015-03-25
- Navigation is slow and hard to use; pages require horizontal scrolling and are not responsive on smaller screens2014-09-25
- Sony devices have some of the worst user interfaces ever made2014-04-05
- Clicking the Flashblock allow button does nothing, so content won't load2011-09-10