The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched • Hacker News Board

Re: The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched

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Post by JeffRosenberg » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

908B64B197 wrote: post #5

I don't think the Lumia 950 deserves to be on the same list as the BB Playbook. By the time the Lumia was released, Windows Phone was actually quite useable and snappy. It's the completely empty app ecosystem and the years of head start iOS and Android had that killed it (apps were not portable from the earlier incarnations of WinPhone). The playbook was just a joke. No emails, no calendar, no apps. Software was incr…

I actually loved Windows Phone. I got one because it was the cheapest possible option after my "real" phone broke, and I was surprised at how polished it was. It was such an interesting, opinionated take on a phone interface; I wish it had had a chance to succeed.

Re: The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched

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Post by jadamczyk » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 7:03 AM UTC

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #8

williamstein wrote: post #4

I strongly agree with their conclusion about Apple keyboards: "Apple inflicted the butterfly keyboard on millions of customers for years, giving it the dubious distinction of causing the most tangible badness of anything we’ve ever reviewed." I had to quit using Apple laptops for years due to how physically painful that keyboard was for me...

It gets tons of press and seems pretty meme-y to hate. But mine of 3 years has no problems and I actually enjoy typing on it quite throughly. More than an other laptop keyboard actually. I’m sure there are at least dozens out there just like me…

Honestly I really liked the short key travel and the tactile feel of the butterfly keyboards. The best part is that the one on MBP 13 from 2017 lasted me like 2 years until I had to buy a more powerful laptop. The thing is I like to keep my computer quite clean so maybe that gave a boost to its life expectancy

Re: The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched

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Post by lokedhs » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC

Given the source of the list, I'm surprised they were able to find a single Apple product to add to it. And even then, it was only half heartedly since they had to mention that it was connected to (in their opinion) a great computer.