Steve Jobs Defends New iTunes 10 Icon Against Criticism
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AidenShaw
macrumors P6
If they know what a DVD is, then they almost certainly have a CD player in their house.
I agree. ITunes has become more than "tunes", it's a multi-media center (love it or hate it). I couldn't care less about "logo's", although I have changed most of mine to a blueish-silver tone. I likey.
ChrisGonzales90
macrumors 6502a
So anyone born after 95?
Just imagine those who grew up on CDs and didn't know what a casate was. Or those during the 8 track and Cassate days,. They didn't know what a record was.
Somehting along the lines of this?
Perhaps a bit to busy, but I know what you mean.
No. That seems too gimmicky, a little too cheesy.
Yeah, untill they try to put the DVD on the CD player thinking its a DVD player
i would have been happy with the color showing up on hover over.
DMann
macrumors 601
And way overstated.
i-John
macrumors 6502a
It's a bloody icon, get over it.
QFT!
MagnusVonMagnum
macrumors 603
18 pages in a few hours...not going to read them over a logo. But I will say I like the new logo better than the old one (both kind of suck, really). That's minor, though and can be replaced by the user regardless.
What REALLY SUCKS is the "gray" icons in the left bar (Color actually helps to recognize things faster; Steve is apprently against color computing and wants to go back to the B&W Mac look or something?) and worse yet, the output speaker button has been reduced in size to a little broadcast icon which sits right next to the genius icon making it VERY easy to bump the wrong button by accident on a notebook or whatever. I do not EVER want to touch the genius button and I don't like a tiny speaker button (which I do use seeing I have 5 rooms and growing on my whole house audio system). I dunno, you kind of expect a program to get better and look better over time. Steve has this way of rubbing people the wrong way these days (by basically ignoring consumer feedback and then condescendingly telling people they're wrong about subjective material) and I'm betting sooner or later it's going to come back and bite him in the butt.
What REALLY SUCKS is the "gray" icons in the left bar (Color actually helps to recognize things faster; Steve is apprently against color computing and wants to go back to the B&W Mac look or something?) and worse yet, the output speaker button has been reduced in size to a little broadcast icon which sits right next to the genius icon making it VERY easy to bump the wrong button by accident on a notebook or whatever. I do not EVER want to touch the genius button and I don't like a tiny speaker button (which I do use seeing I have 5 rooms and growing on my whole house audio system). I dunno, you kind of expect a program to get better and look better over time. Steve has this way of rubbing people the wrong way these days (by basically ignoring consumer feedback and then condescendingly telling people they're wrong about subjective material) and I'm betting sooner or later it's going to come back and bite him in the butt.
Apple of my eye
macrumors regular
I love Louis CK and thanks for the link. I disagree with you on the importance of the icon for iTunes. I think people are wondering why a company that has been so innovative in the past has chosen to represent the product that has revolutionized digital media content and distribution with a plain Jane aqua note. It reminds me of the 2002 macromedia logos
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dave1812dave
macrumors 6502a
he has no butt.
Totally off-topic, have you noticed the syncing bug in that iTunes no longer will delete stuff (deleted from the iTunes library) when attempting to sync an iDevice that has not enough space for the selected items?
Basically, you download some new podcasts, try to sync, get message that there is not enough space. Previously, I would just delete some older, already listened-to podcasts from iTunes, and iTunes would delete them first from the iDevice (and then hopefully finding enough space or not).
Now, with iTunes 10, it does not delete them, it just keeps insisting there is not enough space. You have remove some stuff that would be newly copied to the device and only when it can complete a sync, iTunes will actually delete stuff from the device.
It might be that iTunes is deleting things virtually and calculating that even with deleting the things there won't be enough space. Still, not deleting items because it has not enough space sounds like a contradiction.
Basically, you download some new podcasts, try to sync, get message that there is not enough space. Previously, I would just delete some older, already listened-to podcasts from iTunes, and iTunes would delete them first from the iDevice (and then hopefully finding enough space or not).
Now, with iTunes 10, it does not delete them, it just keeps insisting there is not enough space. You have remove some stuff that would be newly copied to the device and only when it can complete a sync, iTunes will actually delete stuff from the device.
It might be that iTunes is deleting things virtually and calculating that even with deleting the things there won't be enough space. Still, not deleting items because it has not enough space sounds like a contradiction.
ChrisGonzales90
macrumors 6502a
I got a question. What did the orgnial iTunes icon looked like? If people really want a CD there is always this
as for the color icons on the sidebar. What about color on hover over?
as for the color icons on the sidebar. What about color on hover over?
maconservative
macrumors regular
Really?
Are we really ringing our hands over a silly icon?
Are we really ringing our hands over a silly icon?
Eriamjh1138@DAN
macrumors 65816
It's just an icon.
Does anyone know where in the package contents of iTunes the side bar graphics are located? I've seen visual tweaks of iTunes and I've been interested in playing around with it, but I can't seem to find the "Library", "Store", etc. .png's any where in the iTunes.app package contents.
DMann
macrumors 601
This would be ideal, although, most seem to want the color for quick identification, before the 'hover-over.'
Hover over pop-out animation, in a similar manner to Pixelmator menus, would be cool.
AidenShaw
macrumors P6
True - he does not look too healthy in this week's photos - beyond "thin". I hope that it's nothing serious.
The implication from the earlier post was that these kids have no CD player in the house, only a DVD player.
This would be ideal, although, most seem to want the color for quick identification before the 'hover-over.'
Hover over pop-out animation, in a similar manner to Pixelmator menus, would be cool.
Nice, how did you change the tools sidebar?
right click itunes show contents, then resources and scroll down. You can probably copy the old itunes 9 icons over, just like you can do to get the old icon back in the dock.
ToroidalZeus
macrumors 68020
uhm... if you show most people in the WORLD a CD and DVD, they wouldn't be able to tell you which is which.