Apple Rolls Out New App Store Look

[Wayfarer]

You can change it to black yourself in the preferences. That's what I did.

You're absoulutely right! I didn't know that before...

Thanks for the find.

 

[TraceyS/FL]

Not happy - since iTunes 9 the sales of our apps has dropped about 25% - mainly due to the fact that the appstore categories are not clearly displayed. Bad, bad. bad UI design Apple - shame on you. Lots of other developers noticing exactly the same thing.

I"m sad to hear this, but also not surprised. The new layout might work for some, but i HATE IT. Guess it's time to go leave Apple feedback on that point. It is not user friendly to me, so how can i find apps i want to buy?

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?

There is a triangle that appears NEXT TO the words "app store", that gives you the categories. NOt user friendly at all....

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

It's not just you. This is a step back in a variety of ways. It looks cheesy - not classy. I'm not running Snow Leopard so i have no idea if this "look" comes from that, but i just feel like i'm stuck in some 1/2 baked "windows" thing. I was happy the App side hadn't updated - i don't browse music any longer, now i guess i'm done browsing the app side.

You're absoulutely right! I didn't know that before...

Thanks for the find.

That doesn't change where i want it to be not white. Mine has been set to dark since the change. I want the iTunes store side to not be glaring white. Yuck.

 

[amiganut]

Looks are one thing, browsing is another. There are over 1400 APPS in the Entertainment category. Looking for a certain type? Forget it. There are enough "FART" APPS for a sub-category. They can do it for Games. I don't even bother to browse Entertainment. There might be some fine APPS there, but unless you have nothing else to do, great waste of time for that one APP you might buy.

 

[g3signal]

There's always someone who has issues way beyond the current subject.

Cool, but still, ..........I would rather they focus on fixing the ugly white background in iTunes . Used to be cool, now its ugly. But ....this is good too, ......I guess.. screw

 

[cublah]

THe 'More by developer' link shows the 3 most popular apps from that developer which is nearly always going to be lite versions if you have them, only way to the developers other apps is click on the name at the top where it says 'App Store > Games > developer'.

I can see this being a problem for developers as most users won't click on the name.

 

[KALLT]

I hate the new screenshot horizontal scrolling, like the front page has. I'm using two finger scrolling on my MacBook at I can't scroll down smoothly anymore without stopping at the screenshot. Thanks, Apple.

 

[rich2000]

It looks nice. Now if they could only fix the problem that it still shows I have an app update even after I've already updated the app.

Superflous, but annoying as all get out.

It's an iTunes bug, when apps are approved it takes around 3 hours for the binary to be ready for download, however Apple are showing the update almost immediately after approval so you actually end up downloading the old one instead.

After around 3 hours you'll find it's actually the new version you'll get

 

[ilogic]

Well - yes, but also - If you look at how they've started spacing things out on the Apple.com site, making pictures either multitouch rows, or coverflow etc - it is friendlier to a multitouch trackpad at the very least.

Put another way, wouldn't Apple want to make their line of products more accessible to using a tablet? If they were thinking of having a tablet, you'd likely see changes to get ready for one. Maybe there are better examples

MBP is fine for me, but i'm just thinking. Heck, we have no idea what OS 4 for iPhone looks like, let alone Tablet.

I've written to Apple that the navigation style and quality of Apple.com should be like navigating the awesome iTunes LP pages - it would make it accessible to multitouch as you noted, but it may start to pave the way for real browsing of the internet on say... an Apple TV as well, if Apple keeps going this path we can finally see a successful convergence of navigation between the web, multitouch devices, and computer based web browsing...

 

[ilogic]

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).

I wasn't able to reproduce this bug on my computer but it's weird how it happens..

I for one love the new store, my favorite is the aluminum selection color on the menus. I'm not really a fan of the bright blue in the dock menu option...

One bug which I've written to apple about is that iTunes does not properly resize itself when switching resolutions. I use my Macbook on my TV and therefore expand the window size, but when I take my Macbook on the go the iTunes window resizes just outside my ability to resize it properly. My iTunes is stuck on my screen that way until I plug it back to my TV. It's quite annoying, and the zoom button is no use because of all programs this one switches to miniplayer...

 

[kasei]

Yep the update changed the look of the Ghosts Attack page. I like the new look. It really puts the emphasis on the screenshots. It does require developers to adjust their first few lines to make sure they show up properly.

Hopefully it won't take the store all day to make updates to the descriptions if they need to be changed.

 

[anjinha]

It's quite annoying, and the zoom button is no use because of all programs this one switches to miniplayer...

Option + click the zoom button.

 

[Truffy]

How exciting...

...yet my undergarments remain unsoiled :|

 

[FanboyE]

Nice!

I think it looks much better!

 

[star-affinity]

I wasn't able to reproduce this bug on my computer but it's weird how it happens..

How can you not be able to reproduce it?

Just go to any app/album and hover the mouse cursor over the gray line that separates the Library, Store, Shared, Genius pane etc. from the store contents. You will get the ”resize left/right” cursor icon. If you then move the cursor to the right into the area of the album/app description it won't update to another cursor *except* if you move the cursor onto the album's/app's icon (upper left) or a link.

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

I'm torn. Overall, I prefer the old layout for Apps. However, I'm totally digging the bigger screenshots. The bar to scroll them is more logical then those little dots to change photos the old version had. That wasn't intuitive at all, and I am sure a lot of people missed what they even did.

But the best change of all is the wishlist. I've been missing that option for sometime now. It was frustrating that music had it but apps did not. So I am glad that has been changed and that I can finally bookmark all the apps I want cause sometimes you just can't buy them all at the same time!!!

 

[fifthworld]

I think it looks nice, clean and more organized; but, I'm not going to be impressed by any changes in the App Store until Apple gives us the ability to use apps for a limited time before to buy them, and in the process to get rid off all these light versions.

 

[peterdevries]

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.

Maybe they did... How would you know?

 

[Delirium39]

Maybe they did... How would you know?

I assure you, they told us nothing. We found out about the layout changes the same time you did. Developers have been frantically rewriting descriptions, and then waiting 1-6 hours for the changes to take effect.

However, high resolution icons have been a requirement from the beginning. We're required to upload a 512x512 icon, as that is what has always been used on iTunes.

 

[paulsalter]

I am glad I buy my apps from my iPhone.

The new iTunes store look is awful on a small screen.

eg the scroll bars for screenshots now make it look a mess, scrolling before was much better

Buying apps from the store has taken a step for the worse, just like buying music does now

 

[Suzuku]

They should have developers make backgrounds to go in place of that white backdrop. That would look so much better.

 

[holmesf]

Ugh, horizontal scroll bars? Seriously? I prefer the old design.

 

[Ubuntu]

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.

I was just about to correct him, damn you.

 

[twoodcc]

seems pretty good to me. good job apple