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6G iPod User Interface Redesign and Videos
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Just a couple general pokes at the interface elements in the videos:
But hey, maybe I'm wrong and Apple is getting sloppy.
- The battery icon doesn't look like that in either the iPhone or iPod interface (in this version its in fact uglier here - and strangely a couple pixels longer with a stronger gradient. Not well polished 3D like current offerings). It looks like someone tried to replicate it in Photoshop.
- The top navigation gradient is again slightly different from current offerings. It's a solid black line in the video and on the iPod/iPhone UI its a much subtler dark grey. The header text is usually this color as well and it does not boast as strong a shadow as this version.
- Lastly, here is where it's really obvious to me - the spacing of the sub options to the header. It's not sitting proportionally below it. Apple is meticulous in spacing on most of their interface designs. This spacing doesn't seem to fit Apple's history of UI.
But hey, maybe I'm wrong and Apple is getting sloppy.
Shame everyone seems to be going with fake now as the design was quite a good idea, if not just a little silly not being widescreen of course.
Your going to be waiting around a very long time if you think Apple's going to make you something like that, when they can rope you into additional services too like on the iPhone...
Your going to be waiting around a very long time if you think Apple's going to make you something like that, when they can rope you into additional services too like on the iPhone...
I think it looks pretty good, and I won't instantly dismiss it as fake.
I really think Apple will keep a large capacity iPod available that it still music focused, separate to the true video iPod. Maybe this video is the next music focused iPod?
I really think Apple will keep a large capacity iPod available that it still music focused, separate to the true video iPod. Maybe this video is the next music focused iPod?
Finally, some cool rumors.
(And no more complaining about iPhone news stories.)
I'm actually looking to get my dad a video iPod for Christmas, so these rumors are interesting indeed...
I wonder if the basic design will change at all.
Why would Apple have a high capacity dedicated music iPod when Videos typically take up more room? And how is the current iPod not a "true" video iPod?
(And no more complaining about iPhone news stories.
)I'm actually looking to get my dad a video iPod for Christmas, so these rumors are interesting indeed...
I wonder if the basic design will change at all.
Why would Apple have a high capacity dedicated music iPod when Videos typically take up more room? And how is the current iPod not a "true" video iPod?
I'm in favor of that, too, but I'd be completely happy without WiFi and Safari. The current iPod's functionality + the iPhone's form factor & interface = the perfect 6G iPod.
Well, I really hope that - whatever the new iPods look like - they are released soon. The battery life of my 3G iPod has recently been going down the toilet. At this point I don't want to spend money prolonging its life.
A larger screen would be nice from my perspective because I also sometimes use my iPod for off-loading photos from my camera (w/ the old, slow, Belkin adapter). But obviously anything is a step up from my monochrome screen...
A larger screen would be nice from my perspective because I also sometimes use my iPod for off-loading photos from my camera (w/ the old, slow, Belkin adapter). But obviously anything is a step up from my monochrome screen...
The scroll wheel is dead!
This is so fake.
Apple's next generation iPod will have cover flow.
The interface in those movies is so ugly.
The new iPod will have some pretty cool games and they will be launched on the iPhone on the same day.
This is so fake.
Apple's next generation iPod will have cover flow.
The interface in those movies is so ugly.
The new iPod will have some pretty cool games and they will be launched on the iPhone on the same day.
TOTALLY FAKE.
Are there no other Flash designers here? This was obviously made with Flash.
This thing looks horrible anyways. The album content is wrong, the fonts are horrid.
Indeed this was made by someone who put some effort into it. But this is definitely fake.
Are there no other Flash designers here? This was obviously made with Flash.
This thing looks horrible anyways. The album content is wrong, the fonts are horrid.
Indeed this was made by someone who put some effort into it. But this is definitely fake.
Shame everyone seems to be going with fake now as the design was quite a good idea, if not just a little silly not being widescreen of course.
Your going to be waiting around a very long time if you think Apple's going to make you something like that, when they can rope you into additional services too like on the iPhone...
Well you see, your dead wrong! Know why? Cause no way in hell will they rope me into an iPhone or anything else I don't want! It's pretty simple.
I Love my iMAC and think it's one great machine and IM totally satisfied with it. To me it truly is inovative.
However, if this is the next version of an iPod from Apple, they can keep it. It's more evolutionary rather than a new inovation and does not fullfill my needs.
Only time will tell!
The font is Helvetica Neue Bold, which is also used on the iPhone GUI. Arial is a cheap, imitation variant of Helvetica.
But I think it's a fake, too.
Whether these are specifically "true" or "fake", I think the deeper debate is whether the next iPods are "iPhones without the phones" or not.
My bet is "not". I think people need to get used to that idea. Apple is not going to "throw out" the iPod and it's hardware/software design and ecosystem just for the iPhone interface... the iPhone's success was an unknown quantity when the new iPods were being designed. I think Apple may let the iPhone ecosystem build over time and *then* piggyback a new iPod interface on top of that existing structure, but they won't jump in headfirst with no safety net. The iPod IS their cash cow which causes them to play it rather safe when it comes to updates.
My bet is "not". I think people need to get used to that idea. Apple is not going to "throw out" the iPod and it's hardware/software design and ecosystem just for the iPhone interface... the iPhone's success was an unknown quantity when the new iPods were being designed. I think Apple may let the iPhone ecosystem build over time and *then* piggyback a new iPod interface on top of that existing structure, but they won't jump in headfirst with no safety net. The iPod IS their cash cow which causes them to play it rather safe when it comes to updates.
Well, I believe the iPhone uses Helvetica as its font. These videos seem to also be using Helvetica. The reason it looks like Arial is that Arial is Microsoft's cheap-ass knockoff of Helvetica, used in Windows purely because MS wouldn't stump up the cash to licence proper fonts.
See http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/iphone_fonts
[edit: Beaten by Argent117
... but still check out the daringfireball link!]
Hmmm... Lets hope its for the Nano, my 5th gen iPod just died and Im not buying the iPhone yet, hoping to see a touch screen in an iPod.
-Victor
u buy an ipod and keep closed for months ? are you really serious ? unbelivable. hope no new ipods on august 7th then u keep closed for some more months.
i really cant understand some people minds. I bought my iMAC C2D , 8 months ago, now im thinking i should ve done the same, keep closed for 8 months to wait for the new one..
hahaha my god..
Because, even though videos take up more room than music, most people will have more GBs of music than video. And I'm not saying their true video iPod would not also have a large capacity.
And how is the current iPod not a "true" video iPod?
The current 5.5G iPod is not a "true" video iPod because its main function is to play music, and the fact that it can play video is just a bonus feature. (Well thats what Steve Jobs said, at the 5G launch, anyway.)
I don't think a lack of touch screen would be about protecting iphone sales. IMO it would be about sticking with a proven design that is closely associated with the iPod. Touch screen makes sense/is necessary on the iPhone because having a wheel and/or keyboard would take too much screen real estate that is needed for safari. That need isn't there on an iPod, so the clickwheel works. That said, watching movies would be a lot better with a touchscreen.
All I can really say if it's really anything like that without touch screen, I'd have to stick with my normal 5G.
And it would be just flat out stupid to change the width of the iPod too much from the sizes they are now, how pissed off would people be if they go out and get a new iPod and it doesn't sit into their 3rd party docking stations and other various media devices.
And it would be just flat out stupid to change the width of the iPod too much from the sizes they are now, how pissed off would people be if they go out and get a new iPod and it doesn't sit into their 3rd party docking stations and other various media devices.