21–30 of 32 posts
Thanks ed. Been waiting for this one to roll out since the keynote. On a sidenote, is it me or is the new logo hideous?
I'm surprised this made it past Jobs...
The position of the three system buttons for the windows are weird, especially considering how Apple try to be consistent in that kind of stuff.
It really is odd. Also gone are the colored icons, replaced by grey/slate with blue highlights. It's not the blue that's currently used as the default OSX highlighted row color, either. Makes me think that the Aqua theme will seem some changes rather soon.
iTunes is not really the jewel of all of Apple’s applications. At least not anymore. Other applications always seem to have much more polished UIs. Safari is an obvious candidate, all their iWork applications also have pretty nice UIs, as has the iLife suite. Those always seem to be the better OS X citizens.
Combine that with the frequent UI blunders in iTunes (usually at least partially straightened out in subsequent updates) and I’m beginning to suspect that their top UI people are not really working on iTunes all that much.
I’m not even sure whether Apple likes iTunes. For all we know they think of it as this huge, overly complex burden, a trap in which they themselves ran. iOS doesn’t have one monolithic iTunes app that does everything and that clearly seems to be what Apple should have done on OS X. If they could have a fresh start they might. It’s just that they probably don’t want to make that kind of investment. (Consider also that Apple probably doesn’t want to install half a dozen different applications on some poor, unsuspecting Windows user’s PC just so that it can sync to the newly bought iPod shuffle. One application is quite enough and that already makes a lot of people angry.)
Please include MacOSX in the title, not everyone uses a mac..
Thanks ed. Been waiting for this one to roll out since the keynote. On a sidenote, is it me or is the new logo hideous?
I pulled up the iLife photos in Finder and compared them at 512x512px with the new iTunes logo and... there is no comparison. The amazing detail we find in the former is strangely lacking in the latter and the result is shoddy craftsmanship. I'm surprised this made it past Jobs...
The position of the three system buttons for the windows are weird, especially considering how Apple try to be consistent in that kind of stuff.
It really is odd. Also gone are the colored icons, replaced by grey/slate with blue highlights. It's not the blue that's currently used as the default OSX highlighted row color, either. Makes me think that the Aqua theme will seem some changes rather soon.
Reminds me of Tiger, when things were horribly disjointed. Then in Leopard, Apple made a point of unifying the user experience (universal button styles, no brush strokes) to combat tweaks we used to use for that purpose (Uno, etc.). Now, things are starting to re-fragment, along with their mobile OS.
I'm not an OS X programmer. Anyone know how loosely couple Aqua is from the rest of the OS? A tightly coupled system could be the reason Apple's been so slow to change...
Please include MacOSX in the title, not everyone uses a mac..
Truth. I wonder what the percentage of people on HN are Mac users. I'd say something around 80%.
What is also interesting is how Linux usage is quite low on HN compared to our regular base; HN appears to be only about 7% Linux. (The people who can't use iTunes at all).
(Again, this is a very rough conclusion; the percentages can easily be way off).
what's wrong with this link? http://www.apple.com/itunes/