Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by ssclafani » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:12 AM UTC

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by zaatar » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

... 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

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by epistasis » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:41 AM UTC

And the store is down. New products coming out? Cook making his mark already?

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Post by spitfire » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:44 AM UTC

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.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by Silhouette » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:47 AM UTC

I'm not sure I'm a fan of this new layout. The old one tended to have plenty of whitespace to give it a clean, open feel. This more boxy one looks pretty cramped in my browser (Firefox).

I think they have a few issues with content/navigation as well. Certainly they could do with someone more internationally aware checking the wording, because to those of us who don't use the bizarre US date order, "Coming Februrary 10" sounds like your web site is nearly a year out of date...

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Post by dmcg » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:50 AM UTC

zaatar wrote: post #2

... 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

Same here - that is quite a fail.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by arn » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:55 AM UTC

dmcg wrote: post #6

zaatar wrote: post #2

... 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

Same here - that is quite a fail.

it's just a caching issue - just reload the page, and it works.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by dirtyhand » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:56 AM UTC

Steve Jobs is gone for a week and this happens...

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by biot » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:58 AM UTC

dirtyhand wrote: post #8

Steve Jobs is gone for a week and this happens...

At least they didn't feel the urge to put laminate flooring as their site background.

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Post by jcapote » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

on the latest chrome I see all possible ui states for a split second, then the regular interface appears normally. this happens every page i visit