I'm responding to the original article. This should have been clear to you by the fact that my comment was at the root?
I don't disagree with your thoughts on the difference between scenarios where a bad verb is chosen as a shortcut and scenarios where a bad verb is the only way to do something. However, that still isn't relevant to my core point, which is that the iPhone has been and continues to be a place where important actions can only be performed with poorly chosen, confusing, undiscoverable verbs.
This is hardly unique to Apple, to be sure, but again, I was responding to the original article's smug assertion.
I don't disagree with your thoughts on the difference between scenarios where a bad verb is chosen as a shortcut and scenarios where a bad verb is the only way to do something. However, that still isn't relevant to my core point, which is that the iPhone has been and continues to be a place where important actions can only be performed with poorly chosen, confusing, undiscoverable verbs.
This is hardly unique to Apple, to be sure, but again, I was responding to the original article's smug assertion.