[HN Gopher] The Worst Gadgets We've Ever Touched
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       The Worst Gadgets We've Ever Touched
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-11-05 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theverge.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | williamstein wrote:
       | 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...
        
       | 908B64B197 wrote:
       | I don't think the Lumia 950 deserves to be on the same list as
       | the BB Playbook.
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       | 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).
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       | The playbook was just a joke. No emails, no calendar, no apps.
       | Software was incredibly buggy and it felt years behind the iPad.
       | Actually, no, to get the calendar you had to pair it with a
       | blackberry phone if I recall.
        
       | jimpix45 wrote:
       | Ahh, I remember when I tried out the Amazon Fire phone - what a
       | disappointment it was. I wonder if (or when) Amazon will try to
       | make another phone.
        
       | delgaudm wrote:
       | Well, at least the article is only mostly likely to send me into
       | an epileptic seizure.
        
         | kayodelycaon wrote:
         | Seems fitting a post on the worst gadgets they've ever touched
         | would include equally terrible presentation.
        
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