Has anyone tried the link system? A quick try gives a link that can only be opened in another instance of the mac store, call be naive, but I was hoping something similar to pages on apples site considering iOS links.
Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
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Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#62Just tried it. What I don't understand is this: To manage apps on my iphone/ipad/ipod I use iTunes. In iTunes I go to an app store if I want to install a new app on those devices. To access what I perceive to be essentially a form of the same store but for Mac software, I use a dedicated application that now forms part of the Operating System's update management. This makes no sense to me. Does this mean that we'll s…
Certainly. Every time I see a major iTunes update I'm surprised they haven't fixed it. The pimple's ready to pop.
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get the feeling everything not aimed at professionals is going to begin moving toward the single-window and full-screen experiences. Likely in a slow march as opposed to all-at-once, but it seems inevitable to me. Regular people never really took advantage of the MDI anyway. (Not that I blame them, overlapping windows made a mess of everything.)
>(Not that I blame them, overlapping windows made a mess of everything.) Yet this move is happening exactly as extremely high resolution displays that can easily handle multiple side-by-side windows are becoming commonplace.
And after multitasking research has shown how poorly most humans handle it.
And after computer use research has shown how poorly most humans handle MDI.
And after several products from several manufacturers have proven the change to focused-single-task to be not only palatable, but even preferable and popular.
MDI is a great thing for a certain class of people. And I'm talking about a trend in software for everyone else. Those people weren't a high-res monitor away from becoming power-users. It was never going to happen.
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Its like a modification of classic communist propaganda graphic design. Orange, yellow, and black, the star, strong font styling. Kind of weird way to design a blog.
Yes, I think you're right. As a colorblind dude, the colors work well for me, but I wonder how they look to the color-ungimped.
> "but I wonder how they look to the color-ungimped."
awful.
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
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Usually Apple has good solutions packaged in very polished UI. Solving problem with "meh" UI is a step down.
Not always with v1. Apple UIs generally get better with age. They're still iterating large on things like iPhoto and iMovie.
Better with age? I used iTunes years ago and just last week had to install it to resolve an issue with my girlfriends iPod. Not much has changed as far as I can tell and it still pisses me off to use. (Not bashing Apple, discussing your comment "not always with v1. Apple UIs generally get better with age.)
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#66So what. The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. And this is just v1. The "interface" problem is not custom controls or back buttons. The interface problem is installing software. That's the interface most average people stumble on. That's where computers suck. So yeah, some of the UI in the Mac App Store app feels a bit off, but the stuff that matters - one click install of great…
>The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement.
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#67Other 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…
Minimum viable product.
Apple is a startup now?
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#68So what. The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. And this is just v1. The "interface" problem is not custom controls or back buttons. The interface problem is installing software. That's the interface most average people stumble on. That's where computers suck. So yeah, some of the UI in the Mac App Store app feels a bit off, but the stuff that matters - one click install of great…
>The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. Last I checked, this was a solved problem in Ubuntu. What makes it revolutionary now that Apple's done it?
Reach.
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not always with v1. Apple UIs generally get better with age. They're still iterating large on things like iPhoto and iMovie.
Better with age? I used iTunes years ago and just last week had to install it to resolve an issue with my girlfriends iPod. Not much has changed as far as I can tell and it still pisses me off to use. (Not bashing Apple, discussing your comment "not always with v1. Apple UIs generally get better with age.)
iTunes is very unlike Apple’s other apps.
Re: Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
#70So what. The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. And this is just v1. The "interface" problem is not custom controls or back buttons. The interface problem is installing software. That's the interface most average people stumble on. That's where computers suck. So yeah, some of the UI in the Mac App Store app feels a bit off, but the stuff that matters - one click install of great…
>The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. Last I checked, this was a solved problem in Ubuntu. What makes it revolutionary now that Apple's done it?
Most people don't use Ubuntu.
Come on, man, it's a Linux Distro – how many of our moms are installing those?
Plus there's the whole easy monetization thing for developers.
This is like saying Dropbox's functionality was a solved problem thanks to rsync.