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Apple Rolls Out New App Store Look

Glad to know Apple let us know ahead of time that our descriptions would be automatically cut down to the first 2 lines (read: let us know next time ahead of time, kthx) - that's nothing for the vast majority of app descriptions on the store, and you just know that no one is going to click the itty-bitty tiny "...More" text hidden over in the corner.

:-/
 
what this store needs is video footage of each app. leave it up to the developer to provide it, but clicking a little box and seeing a 30 second preview could help also.
 
I liked having all the information about the app in the sidebar, but I guess this is better to stop the useless blabber before you find out what the app even does. My vote 4.5/5.
 
I like that the “Whats New In This Version” section is now very prominent. It used to be tucked below the long main description, with a black heading hiding amongst all the black text.

Even for apps I don’t already own, I like that change: it means you can immediately see if something reviewers moan about below has just been fixed.
 
pavelbure said:
what this store needs is video footage of each app. leave it up to the developer to provide it, but clicking a little box and seeing a 30 second preview could help also.
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That is a great idea. Let the dev have a video instead of an image, if they choose.

Off topic, I hope that they eventually implement a trial period for apps. Let the developer set a certain time frame for apps. Apple already has this with their exploding DRM for movie rentals. There are plenty of apps that I just buy but expensive ones, like TomTom, i tested with a jailbroken phone. I think this could be convenient enough to counter some stealing with jailbroken devices.


nagromme said:
I like that the “Whats New In This Version” section is now very prominent. It used to be tucked below the long main description, with a black heading hiding amongst all the black text.

Even for apps I don’t already own, I like that change: it means you can immediately see if something reviewers moan about below has just been fixed.
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Me too.
 
pavelbure said:
what this store needs is video footage of each app. leave it up to the developer to provide it, but clicking a little box and seeing a 30 second preview could help also.
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Never thought of that! It would be awesomeeee :)
 
I like the new store, but what has really blown me away tonight is that Apple added a "Preview All" button for albums so you can listen to every clip without having to go back and forth from iTunes and keep clicking the next song!

I used to have a piece of software that would do that (iTunes Music Store Player) but it stopped working when iTunes redid their store in the fall with the more web-based system.

Very happy camper over here.
 
An obvious improvement. Has anyone ever seen the wii (game console) online store? It's just so basic, I don't know what these guys are thinking not to update that thing in all the years the wii has been out. They're leaving a lot of money on the table.
 
I really didn't like it when they changed the way songs and that are presented in itunes. This change will make it all more consistent, but the music change they did a few months looks a bit amateurish to the point where I thought it was temporary. Maybe its just that the background behind album review text etc used to be dark and easy to read, whereas it now its all bright and it looks a bit cheesy (eg the individual play button on tracks looks like its been lifted from Windows!)
 
Looks pretty good and pretty touch friendly if it's on the iTablet.

Too bad I can't buy anything (no iTouch or iPhone). :(
 
A MUCH BETTER search engine is much needed for both iTunes in general and App Store in particular. As well as Spotlight. Bring back the great search engine of Mac OS 9 and the former Mac OS X versions!!!
 
macduke said:
Haha, I just browsed the app store. Lol @ the huge pixelated icons. Apple could have at least sent out a memo to developers letting them know that they should upload hi-res icons and redo their pages.
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When you upload an app, you are required to provide a 512x512 icon. That's plenty large enough to look good. Problem is, I think a lot of developers designed their icons as bitmaps instead of vector and used the phone size while drawing it. Then the just scaled the icon up to 512 resulting in pixelation. :(

My icon looks good at the larger size. :)
 
Browse?

I cannot for my life find a way to browse the content of the new App Store. The possibility to for example browse by category etc is now gone it seems. How will I find apps that are not "Hot", "Featured" or advertised in other ways?
 
is it just me or is itunes feeling allot more cluttered these days? the icons and graphics are almost too large... i feel like everything is fighting for my attention but isn't actually giving me a true picture of the products

i prefer the iphones app store much better
 
Attention to detail

One small but annoying thing in the iTunes 9 and the new ”store look” that I think Apple should fix – the cursor doesn't always update properly i.e. it doesn't always change from the ”drag left right” cursor (see linked movie to see what I mean):

http://home.mac.se/star-affinity/wrong_cursor_icon_in_itunes.mov

I think this is still a relatively frequent issue in Mac OS X overall – one get the wrong mouse cursor icon depending on what's underneath (mostly the text select cursor icons when over buttons).
 
First two lines = Good - so many developers waste the text with garbage.

Multiple screenshots = I liked the old way with flipping through the screenshots as it was an elegant solution.

Bigger icon = No improvement.
 
macduke said:
So if I'm reading your code right, you want comments about beer? Sorry, this is an Apple only site. Unless you go to the Community Discussion section of the forum.

Otherwise, I think you want this:

while (stomach < full){
beer++;
}

Of course I didn't declare the stomach and full variables...I'll leave those up to personal preference.
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You just created and infinite loop of beer drinking. Not like that's a bad thing, though.
 
Things look better but generally usability has decreased a lot with iTunes 9 Store.

My biggest pet peeve is the stupid truncating of text. I HATE hitting "...More" to be greeted with 1-2 more lines of text or at times even a single word (the Grinchmas app even has this problem in the ratings sidebar... do I really need to hit more to see "rights reserved."?). They need a more intelligent algorithm that just shows the whole thing if it's 90% there anyway. No point in hiding the end and making me hit More.

Apps generally have a lot more text, but I think only showing 2 lines is way too little. At least show 4-6. Don't make me have to click just to get a decent description. Also there is no way to collapse the text again for when it is really long. The two column format they had before was better. A resizable text box might be ideal.

Things are better than when they first launched. I don't recall being able to sort albums by date when iTunes 9 first launched. The main problem is they're trying show everything at once by truncating everything (song lists, etc) and they end up showing nothing. Hey I have a big screen! It's much easier to scroll than to hit "more" and "show all" constantly.
 
macduke said:
So if I'm reading your code right, you want comments about beer? Sorry, this is an Apple only site. Unless you go to the Community Discussion section of the forum.

Otherwise, I think you want this:

while (stomach < full){
beer++;
}

Of course I didn't declare the stomach and full variables...I'll leave those up to personal preference.
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Don't you mean while (stomach != full)? Just a thought.

Anyways, looks cool. I don't buy too many apps. Plus, I find that I tend to buy them on my iPhone, not through iTunes.
 
pavelbure said:
what this store needs is video footage of each app. leave it up to the developer to provide it, but clicking a little box and seeing a 30 second preview could help also.
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I totally agree. The few I have bought that have a video have been tremendously helpful.
 
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