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Other things that the App Store lacks (again): - A wishlist or a very simple way to mark apps that you are willing to buy in the near future. - Price tags on every product. Not just the one's you haven't purchased. As I already have the iWork suite installed, I can't read the prices of those articles. - Good autocomplete. The app store universe is a finite one, not a chaotic infinite one such as the entire web. There…
Other things that the App Store lacks (again): - A wishlist or a very simple way to mark apps that you are willing to buy in the near future. - Price tags on every product. Not just the one's you haven't purchased. As I already have the iWork suite installed, I can't read the prices of those articles. - Good autocomplete. The app store universe is a finite one, not a chaotic infinite one such as the entire web. There…
@jasonfried [https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/23111721640009728]
If it makes you sad because Apple is no longer devoting thousands of pixels at the top of each window to a big "drag this window" control, you'd better brace yourself, because the next step for many consumer applications is to have windows that cannot be dragged at all. This design looks like an iPad screen to me. Did the implications of Apple's stated mission to "make the Mac more like the iPad" not sink in? The iPa…
That will not hinder its success, heh. Vanity blogpost. Look at HN, Reddit, ebay etc. to see how much design really matters. OSX is pretty but I'd argue it's not the neat icons that make it a success. Tsts.. Designers and their worldview.
I highly doubt that, given that the standard size for the dragging bar on in OS X is only 22 pixels tall, while the bar on the Mac App Store appears to be about 54 pixels tall. The increased vertical size would seem to make up for the smaller horizontal draggable area, from an accessibility standpoint.
The icon is horrible too.
Really? That bad? I'm not so sure the swans deserve such treatment. While there are some questionable design decisions in the UI, I'm more concerned with the UI performance (sluggish scrolling, interactions, etc).
I generally agree with your points, however, if I recall correctly, iTunes's window controls/style changed slightly before Leopard, and when Leopard was released, everything lost its white/pinstripe style and looked like iTunes. I think what we're looking at it is what every window in Lion will look like. On the issue of dragging windows, I think that Apple is a bad boy that doesn't care about convention and wants to…