... and it doesn't work quite right on the iPad. There is a hovering menu bar which is fully blank. I'm surprised they didn't test the site on the iPad before pushing it live. [Edit] Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DxTKY.png
Probably because they have the Apple Store app for the iPad.
However, the Apple Store app does not have all the configuration options for hardware that you get on the real site, as one example.
it's just a caching issue - just reload the page, and it works.
That's what asset versioning is for. I can't believe they don't concatenate their assets. Even their versioned PNG files use Etags... With proper caching and other optimizations they could probably get their site load times down to maybe 300ms (almost instantly) instead of 1.8s and at the same time fix such caching problems.
I had to buy a mac OS/X DVD a week ago and I was actually surprised by how clean the (old) site feels compared to almost every other e-commerce site that I use. The only thing that was slightly cumbersome was the checkout process but otherwise it was pretty smooth. What bugged me is that I had to take 'snail mail' delivery instead of being offered the option to download an ISO image. There absolutely is no added valu…
The added value is that my mom and grandma don't have to worry about what that option is and if they should have picked it. I think the Mac App store is a much more likely place and method of getting instant updates.
I had to buy a mac OS/X DVD a week ago and I was actually surprised by how clean the (old) site feels compared to almost every other e-commerce site that I use. The only thing that was slightly cumbersome was the checkout process but otherwise it was pretty smooth. What bugged me is that I had to take 'snail mail' delivery instead of being offered the option to download an ISO image. There absolutely is no added valu…
Here's a small tip if you really want a download instead. If you sign up as a mac developer you can download it from developer.apple.com , though I'm not sure what the license on that is.
Someone have a before and after? Maybe I just don't spend enough time on apple.com, but this looks the same to me, except maybe a different color on the menu bar.
The page background color is different as well. It was white before, now its #F2F2F2.
The new top-level menu looks nice, too, but somehow it just doesn't look "Apple" to me. Maybe I'm just too used to the old site...
OK, I clicked on Site Map. I get this zero-pixel border/gutter on the left side (on Safari), which I find incredibly annoying. Does anyone else see this ?
See the Macbook Air page for instance: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ Though that's the only page so far I've found with a dark black background. I'm not sure why it's black, all the other Macbook Air pages have a light background.
This is the old and unchanged MacBook Air page. Apple heavily customizes product pages – no two look alike. That has always been the case and is definitely nothing new. I think that the Final Cut Studio page was entirely black in the past, maybe even the Mac Pro page. Here is a screenshot from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pxlronin/542462785/ Also from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/541257980/
It's mostly the same, but the current Macbook Air page does have the new menu.
I don't like it. The light grey worked and seemed very Apple. This dark black seems a little too serious and the menubar seems somehow incomplete. I'm sure they'll still sell millions of whatever they're selling though. and I'll still buy their stuff.
Could be a sign of a shift to a darker tone in OSX Lion as as been rumoured in the past.
Or a more dark plastic look based on the top menubar. Out with the metal, in with the plastic?
This is the old and unchanged MacBook Air page. Apple heavily customizes product pages – no two look alike. That has always been the case and is definitely nothing new. I think that the Final Cut Studio page was entirely black in the past, maybe even the Mac Pro page. Here is a screenshot from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pxlronin/542462785/ Also from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/541257980/
It's mostly the same, but the current Macbook Air page does have the new menu.
Obviously. Site wide elements obviously changed (I think the site map at the bottom also slightly changed), but that’s not really relevant to the comment. The page content itself – everything minus the site wide elements – is completely unchanged. It being black is not new and also not surprising.