I wouldn't use a smartphone with 8 cores and 4 GB of RAM and a long battery life if the user interface sucks. If Ice Cream Sandwich is mediocre from a usability standpoint, no hardware can save it.
It seems to me that phrases like "from a usability standpoint", are becoming a generic stick to beat things with, and that there's a rush of the Hipsters to be the first to claim that that widely used service X is unusable for some user experience reason.
here's another example