Well when 90% of this topic prefered the original icon, and one poster even avoided updating his app because he felt that strongly... maybe that should tell you something.
Do you think he's the only one saying that he's not updating because of an icon?
I've already had to deal with tons of people saying they wouldn't use my app because of the old icon.
As i said before, my download rate has gone *up* since the change.
If it was 1 or 2 people on here disliking the new icon then of course you could ignore it and concentrate on those that like it.
But when the overwhelmind majority hate the new icon....?
The overwhelming majority do *not* hate the new icon. There are simply a dozen or so data points on *this* forum. I still ahve to deal with email (where i have nearly 15000 bits of feedback so far), my polls (which take 1000 random people and run things by them, my download statistics, and use all of that to come up with a decision.
If i changed back because of the people here and i suddently started getting the 5-10 hate mails a day about the old icon, then would you say it was a good idea?
No offense to anyone but you've got to be pretty stupid to think that a film reel looks like a goddamn pizza. I mean if you like movies enough to put that app on your phone, you should be able to identify a pic of a film reel. I guess it's just the younger, all-digital generation.
You know, attitudes like this are *really* disappointing.
The idea that just because someone doesn't like something you like, or does not recognize something immediately recognizable to you, that that means they're stupid is just bogus.
I have an app that is released *worldwide*. People grow up in different enviroments and have differing ideas about what things look like and what things mean. As i said before, the ticket motif is very iconic to me, but it turned out that tons and tons of people did not recognize is that way, and those that i explained it to said "none of my theater tickets ever look that way, and i've never seen a ticket like that".
You simply have to get over your own prejudices and beliefs about what people understand, and what they like. I'm sure there are many other people who like what you like (including, appearantly, me), but that does not mean that that applied to my entire userbase.
Again, this is the sort of destructive criticism that does not help at *all*.
If you do not like the icon, please work with me to come up with something that more people will like.
The new Gymgoal lite icon is alright, but I liked the old one a whole lot better.
And app icons can turn me off an app from buying an app, I may not even look at the app description if I don't like the icon at all. Dumb really...
Yes. Precisely. I got that sort of feedback all the time. People who simply wouldn't download my app becuse they didn't like the ticket icon, or that they removed it because it looked bad on their iPhone screens.
I decided to do something about it, and i thought i did it in a responsible manner. I talked to my customers, i tried out a bunch of options, i did polls, i was willing to overlook my own preferences. And, in the end, the result worked out for me. Sure... some people may not upgrade, and some people may not install the app. But the numbers have shown me that there were *more* people who were taking that action before when the app had the old icon.
So, again, to people complaining, why do you think this was a bad idea for me? And if you do not like the dcision, what is your solution?
Thanks!
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BTW, my preferred solution would just be for apple to allow app authors to have multiple icons (like how iCal does it). Then i could just give you all the choice and you could switch back to the original icon. But since that's not within my control, i need an icon that pleases the *majority* of my customers and which displeases the *minority*. Certainly you can agree that that's better than the reverse right?
And even if you believe that people are dumb for not liking what you like, i'm sure that those same people were saying "how can anyone like this icon" when they were deleting or refusing to download my app. Why do you believe that i should give your preference more weight?
