<story><title>iPhones are hard to use</title><url>https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Most people know it&amp;#x27;s controversial to say &amp;quot;iPhones are hard to use&amp;quot; because most people feel that the iPhone, perhaps more than any other technological innovation in the past 20 years, made technology easy to access, use, and integrate with their lives.&lt;p&gt;To say &amp;#x27;iPhones are hard to use&amp;#x27; and then point out all the small edge cases of use as significant flaws is hyperbole in bad faith. The author is caught up in his own intellectual habit and not in touch with reality.&lt;p&gt;A better title for this article could be &amp;#x27;Simplifying complexity inevitably sidelines some of some user&amp;#x27;s needs&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsight</author><text>Or maybe &amp;quot;making the setup process easy hides some really important (and even safety critical) functionality&amp;quot;. Or &amp;quot;popups are still bad and apparently we still need to say it&amp;quot; (referring to the wifi one). Or maybe &amp;quot;some current edge cases should be center cases&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think that his point is an overly broad indictment of the iphone so much as an analysis of where many of its more common flaws actually lie. I&amp;#x27;ve seen so many criticisms of trivialities around colors in the calendar, but little analysis of what real people with basic knowledge don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;The fact that it is so iPhone centric leads me to believe that the author is a fan. I don&amp;#x27;t consider this bad faith at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>iPhones are hard to use</title><url>https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Most people know it&amp;#x27;s controversial to say &amp;quot;iPhones are hard to use&amp;quot; because most people feel that the iPhone, perhaps more than any other technological innovation in the past 20 years, made technology easy to access, use, and integrate with their lives.&lt;p&gt;To say &amp;#x27;iPhones are hard to use&amp;#x27; and then point out all the small edge cases of use as significant flaws is hyperbole in bad faith. The author is caught up in his own intellectual habit and not in touch with reality.&lt;p&gt;A better title for this article could be &amp;#x27;Simplifying complexity inevitably sidelines some of some user&amp;#x27;s needs&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattSayar</author><text>But then nobody would read it</text></comment>