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by dd8601fn 159 days ago
Nobody is mentioning that there’s essentially nowhere you see the icon now without the name (internationalized) unless you’re already familiar with it, and pinned it to a launcher or something.

The first time you see most of them they’re on a page with screenshots and descriptions.

Nobody needs to know what the Word icon is before they know what Word is.

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I have icons of apps I’ve used many times visible in a launcher, and I still have to think about which is which because they are so nondescript.