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Steve Jobs Defends New iTunes 10 Icon Against Criticism
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They didn't really have to change the icon; they just wanted to. It never occurred to me to think the icon was "dated" just because it depicted a CD. I never heard of anybody else bringing this up until Steve said something about it.
Online music purchases may have over taken CD sales, but CDs are still being sold. I have purchased several songs and albums from iTunes, but most of my own music comes from the CDs I started collecting 19 years ago.
I didn't mind the old icon. I don't mind that they wanted to change it. I wish they had come up with a better one.
The icon really doesn't bother me. I really wish they would move iTunes completely to the grey Dashboard-ish look of the Album Art View - Grid. It's so much nicer. They should make the ENTIRE app look that good. Dark grey. Ditch all the white. It's much to glaring to look at.
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As far as the new icon concerns, I don't find it bad. My problem is with the name of the app. iTunes was a music app but nowadays it does much more than that. How about iMedia?
I think it is a big deal , Mac OS probably has the best looking interface, I would hate to see Apple ruin it by adding that icon.. I've always preferred Mac OS to Windows, and its primarily because of the interface..
I changed that purple Icon and turned it blue look better now imo
Honestly I like the older icon better, I will probably just use the older one..
, Mac OS probably has the best looking interface, I would hate to see Apple ruin it by adding that icon.. I've always preferred Mac OS to Windows, and its primarily because of the interface.. I changed that purple Icon and turned it blue
look better now imo
Honestly I like the older icon better, I will probably just use the older one..
Can't you just use the old icon instead of this one anyways?
While I'm not fond of the new icon, I'm even less fond of the UI changes. They took a lot of colour out of it and made it more one colour, which is very stale and lifeless.
Oh well. There really is a lot more going on out there in the world than worrying about a company's product image changing.
Time to move on methinks.
While I'm not fond of the new icon, I'm even less fond of the UI changes. They took a lot of colour out of it and made it more one colour, which is very stale and lifeless.
Oh well. There really is a lot more going on out there in the world than worrying about a company's product image changing.
Time to move on methinks.
It was also purple at one point too.
Personally I really do not like the iTunes 10 icon. I had no opinion on the old one but the new one seems more like it was designed to fit in with the Windows UI than for a Mac. It is out of place and very overbearing in my dock where it sites alongside Mail, Address Book, iCal and Preview, all of which have the same feel and angle of the original iTunes icon.
It is easy to dismiss it as something trivial, but for those of us who do not have our dock hidden it means you spend most of the day staring at it. And its dominating presence in the dock makes it stand out on the screen that it does catch the eye and becomes difficult to ignore. Thankfully it was easy enough to change back.
Besides, it is also hypocritical to complain about people moaning about the triviality of the icon while reading the thread then moaning about other people having opinions on it.
Michael.
Try thinking of the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, starvation in the 3rd world, and childhood cancer. You might gain a little perspective.
Really...all this over an icon? Really!? lol If I was Steve I would have written back: "Get a life."
This might be slightly off-topic but you know what I think is ugly about the new iTunes? The new Capacity Bar! It looks like it was created in Photoshop in about 5 minutes!
I don't mind the new iTunes icon though...I think it needed a refresh.
I don't mind the new iTunes icon though...I think it needed a refresh.
Different? It's a music note in a circle! Can't get less creative and bland than that...
They will eventually need to dump the iPod click wheel logo (on the iPhone). The iPod Classic design probably won't be around much longer. I think they should have just called it iTunes and made the iTunes store icon "iTunes Store". I guess they will just rename it to Music though like on the iPod Touch, or they could combine the iTunes store and Music/Video into one app and call it iTunes.
1. Yes, I think the icon looks like something anyone could whip up in Photoshop in 10 mins.
2. Just get over it. It's an icon.
3. If you hate it that much, just change the icon manually.
I am disappointed with Apple.. I would expect more from them. But anyway... moving on.
2. Just get over it. It's an icon.
3. If you hate it that much, just change the icon manually.
I am disappointed with Apple.. I would expect more from them. But anyway... moving on.
I don't think dropping the CD is the issue - it's that it hasn't been replaced with anything 'iconic'.
From a design point of view the new icon seems to lack everything that Apple pioneered in icon design. That is, cohesion and physicality - features that imitators have often failed to capture even as they mimic the translucence and shine of the early aqua style.
For example, the inner ball has no sense of depth; the inner gradient (which would have felt like a refractive effect under the rules of aqua) bears no relation to the reflection on the outer surface. So there's no sense of tactility or material property. The outer ring has very little thickness or feeling of contour to it. So there's no sense of its connection to, or containment of the ball. Then the note itself has physical depth due to an edge highlight (that does not match the angle of the light hitting the ball!), but an internal gradient that contradicts its sense of surface. Furthermore, it takes on the shine of the ball, yet appears to have no relation to that surface. It's just a but unsophisticated.
This icon seems to be made purely with layer styles in Photoshop, whereas most of Apple's nice ones could well have a hint of Pixar in them. Maybe they've moved away from this relationship? Or maybe they just let the summer interns play with the app bundles too much this year?
From a design point of view the new icon seems to lack everything that Apple pioneered in icon design. That is, cohesion and physicality - features that imitators have often failed to capture even as they mimic the translucence and shine of the early aqua style.
For example, the inner ball has no sense of depth; the inner gradient (which would have felt like a refractive effect under the rules of aqua) bears no relation to the reflection on the outer surface. So there's no sense of tactility or material property. The outer ring has very little thickness or feeling of contour to it. So there's no sense of its connection to, or containment of the ball. Then the note itself has physical depth due to an edge highlight (that does not match the angle of the light hitting the ball!), but an internal gradient that contradicts its sense of surface. Furthermore, it takes on the shine of the ball, yet appears to have no relation to that surface. It's just a but unsophisticated.
This icon seems to be made purely with layer styles in Photoshop, whereas most of Apple's nice ones could well have a hint of Pixar in them. Maybe they've moved away from this relationship? Or maybe they just let the summer interns play with the app bundles too much this year?
I like this one a lot. Using it now, thx.I changed that purple Icon and turned it blue
Just an icon, what is the matter with people?
iTunes 10 is great, fast and clean. I like the clean look with more subdued colors. Logo, almost the same but I didn't even think twice about the difference from the old one.
To stop using iTunes over a logo is an extreme, that person needs to change his/her medication or a therapist.
Good job, Apple!
iTunes 10 is great, fast and clean. I like the clean look with more subdued colors. Logo, almost the same but I didn't even think twice about the difference from the old one.
To stop using iTunes over a logo is an extreme, that person needs to change his/her medication or a therapist.
Good job, Apple!
I really don't like the icon either, it just looks unapple like, and doesn't seem to match anything other than the colours are similar to quicktime X thats about it. The new layout is nice, pity about the icon I've changed it to something a tad nicer. Who ever designed it really should reconsider perhaps they should try and buy the rights to Chris Carlozzi's superb icon
It's a Windows 7 icon, isnt it?!?!! Couldn't believe it.
And all the greyed out text? WTF. I thought I had downloaded spamware version or something.
And all the greyed out text? WTF. I thought I had downloaded spamware version or something.
The new icon looks better than the old one.
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Seriously though, people get worked up over the dumbest things. The new icon looks fine and having a cd on the old one at this point was dumb. So it was due for a change and there is nothing wrong with the new one.
I just wonder who are the people who have the time and energy to actually sit around and evaluate and criticize something so inconsequential. Imagine if the same energy was spent by those people creating something themselves...
-Sent from my Macbook Pro
Seriously though, people get worked up over the dumbest things. The new icon looks fine and having a cd on the old one at this point was dumb. So it was due for a change and there is nothing wrong with the new one.
I just wonder who are the people who have the time and energy to actually sit around and evaluate and criticize something so inconsequential. Imagine if the same energy was spent by those people creating something themselves...