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> Apple believes that words are ugly, they try not to use them They are a global company. Trying to build a UI that is coherent across diverse languages like

> Apple believes that words are ugly, they try not to use them They are a global company. Trying to build a UI that is coherent across diverse languages like English, Japanese, Cyrillic is incredibly complex. And then you still need to factor in the 14% of the world who can't read. Given the success of smartphones it does seem like these concerns aren't concerning the market.

janice1999 2y ago
The number one technical issue I handle for elderly relatives is explaining what the application icons mean and what they do. Most tech people have internalized the hamburger menu icon. It's completely meaningless to first time users.
- mingus88 2y ago
  I’m sorry but if you have elderly relatives who are first time mobile users then they are the problem. I am perfectly patient explaining what a floppy icon means to a child who is new to the device and never has even seen a floppy disk before In 2024 I no longer have any patience for a senior citizen who has been proudly ignorant of anything “techie” for the past two decades of their life and now is hopelessly lost in the modern era. These boomers were handed unprecedented prosperity though their entire adult lives and decided learning new things in the 90s and 2000s was beneath them. Why should they have to relearn anything? They got that far without a computer. I have boomer parents and am well aware of their generational ignorance.
red-iron-pine 2y ago
> And then you still need to factor in the 14% of the world who can't read. if you're in a country where you can't read, chances are you're not making enough money to have realistic chances to buy iphones. generic android low-end stuff? sure. but it's like Lexus worrying if people in shantytowns can figure out how to use their touchscreen dash -- not a demographic they serve.

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> Apple believes that words are ugly, they try not to use them They are a global company. Trying to build a UI that is coherent across diverse languages like

by threeseed 2y ago

janice1999 2y ago
The number one technical issue I handle for elderly relatives is explaining what the application icons mean and what they do. Most tech people have internalized the hamburger menu icon. It's completely meaningless to first time users.
- mingus88 2y ago
  I’m sorry but if you have elderly relatives who are first time mobile users then they are the problem. I am perfectly patient explaining what a floppy icon means to a child who is new to the device and never has even seen a floppy disk before In 2024 I no longer have any patience for a senior citizen who has been proudly ignorant of anything “techie” for the past two decades of their life and now is hopelessly lost in the modern era. These boomers were handed unprecedented prosperity though their entire adult lives and decided learning new things in the 90s and 2000s was beneath them. Why should they have to relearn anything? They got that far without a computer. I have boomer parents and am well aware of their generational ignorance.
red-iron-pine 2y ago
> And then you still need to factor in the 14% of the world who can't read. if you're in a country where you can't read, chances are you're not making enough money to have realistic chances to buy iphones. generic android low-end stuff? sure. but it's like Lexus worrying if people in shantytowns can figure out how to use their touchscreen dash -- not a demographic they serve.