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Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2007–2024), in 13 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Stylus-based interaction and slow browser make it awkwardUnreviewed
20072026- Resistive touchscreens and stylus-built apps made menus and interaction worse than the iPhone2024-01-29
- Stylus-based devices felt clunky and laggy to use2023-06-06
- Slow browser and awkward stylus-based interaction made the experience dismal2018-08-09
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 13 complaints
- Resistive touchscreens and stylus-built apps made menus and interaction worse than the iPhone2024-01-29
- Stylus-based devices felt clunky and laggy to use2023-06-06
- Called the Windows CE and Windows Mobile platforms unusable, without saying what goes wrong2023-04-10
- Windows Mobile phone was a pain to use compared to Apple's UI2020-04-23
- Tab order changed after update, so workers entered data into wrong fields2019-02-28
- Slow browser and awkward stylus-based interaction made the experience dismal2018-08-09
- Tapping out long email replies with the stylus was a chore2016-02-22
- Email often needed reconfiguring and connections renegotiated poorly between towers2013-09-19
- Multitasking is hard to use and the OS is inflexible to customize2011-11-14
- Desktop UI shoehorned onto touch screen without keyboard or mouse makes the experience subpar2010-03-19
- Slow and the UI isn't great for the user2010-03-17
- Thumb-only typing on tiny keys is too tiring, slow for other keys and symbols2009-02-01
- Opening Text Messages always needs extra steps instead of going straight to the likely screen2007-12-17