I have to take my glasses off to read the tiny icons in a status bar. They're utterly useless irritating little wastes of space spamming up my phone or tablet. I've 14 of the little buggers at the top of this tablet's screen now and there's only 4 that I know for sure what they are.

The gesture required to use them involves one hand putting my glasses on my head, squinting at some tiny icons, putting my glasses back on. You have to stop walking, riding or driving to do this. Who invented this? A notification system that notifies me of trivial Rubbish that requires I stop what I'm doing to read them. And the fix is another device, the smartwatch!

On Sailfish 1.0, they used big icons and huge fonts. Yeah you can do it still on 2.0 but now you've also got status bar spam, just like Android, which has the worst notification system of any OS going and yet people copy it. Even Apple did instead of copying Nokia's event view/fastlane.

It just worries me that in an effort to appease who cry for Android like features, we're cluttering up the UI with noise.