Why do washing machines often say 1 min left, but that 1 minute lasts 5 or more minutes?

Question

Why lie about that

In: Technology

Answer 1

Same question applies to Windows installer programs since 1995, stalling at 99% or even 100%. Special treat are the ones with that single blue bar that resets to zero after it is at 98% and then repeats that cycle an unknown number of times. Unbelievable that they haven’t solved this problem. Look at Apple ánd Linux – both do this 99x better.