"the designers at Apple apparently believe that text is ugly, so it should either be eliminated entirely or made as invisible as possible." I think the push fo

"the designers at Apple apparently believe that text is ugly, so it should either be eliminated entirely or made as invisible as possible." I think the push for icons was partially to ease the pain of localization (German, I'm looking at you), but I 100% agree with the criticism of interfaces here. There is a subset of icons that most people who use computers regularly understand, but it's pretty small. Nobody seems to agree on what the icon for "share" should be.