Comment by DidYaWipe

Exactly. When Ive ran out of Dieter Rams designs to rip off, it became clear that he only had two "ideas:"

    1. Thinner

    2. Delete functionality

Actually, I can think of one more idea he had:

    - Replace physical keys on Apple's "pro" laptop with an emoji bar.

As far as "design language" goes, I don't know which parts of it Ive was responsible for, but a lot of it sucked and continues to do so. Secret menus, peek-a-boo UI that doesn't exist unless you happen to roll the cursor across it... or plug something in...

One of my favorite Apple UI blunders was the iTunes control that disappeared if you didn't have an iPod plugged in... but controlled what happened when you DID plug it in: "Sync on connect," which was enabled by default.

Guess what happened when your hard drive went bad (or suffered some mass deletion), you replaced it, and then you plugged your iPod in?