Sorry guys, I really meant "grid of icons" in the iPhone touch screen sense. Basically since the iPhone it has been the only way to display apps. I don't think saying that is "patently ridiculous"

If you think of the grid design, what it basically says, visually is that all apps are of equal importance. Which is weird, when you think about it. Surely on a phone, ringing someone is a more important task than , say , Settings, yet the grid style (whether Apples or indeed a Symbian KHTML based) says they're of equal importance