tuaw.com— "Apple seems to use iTunes as a test-bed for new user interface design styles, and iTunes 7 brings with it an almost complete overhaul the Aqua look we have all grown to love/hate/tolerate."
Sep 12, 2006View in Crawl 4
mywhitenoise: you contradict yourself. you say there are always ways to change the theme, and then say that you need a third party program to do it? i don't get it -- either you can never change the theme or the mac comes with a themer app.sorry, but i calls fanboyism like i sees it.
Many people seem to want to unify the appearance of OSX, giving each application the same look and feel. Personally, I like that different apps have slightly different UI, it gives each app a particular character and makes distinguishing it from the others simpler. I tried UNO, but after a few hours I switched back to the regular interface because it was harder to find the window I was looking for.Apple has had plenty of time to refine and unify the look of OSX, but while they continue to refined it, they haven't ever unified it.As for iTunes, I think swewacide is right about the changes in iTunes being the result of its "crossplatformedness," iTunes on Windows looks out of place on windows due largely to the use of gloss and transparency. Perhaps apple will bring back some of the gloss to itunes when windows users switch to vista.
I modded you down because most people dont have their music library only on their ipod. Most people want their music on their ipod and on their computer, this is because the ipod is designed to be synced to an itunes library, this allows you to play all your music from your computer which many people do, but also gives you a backup of your library (who would trust a hard disk thats reading data while you are running not to fail!). Having said that i do agree that the extra view options should be avaliable for ipods and also for shared libraries on other computers.Out of interest how come you guys dont keep your libraries on your hard disk too? 3.5" disks are cheap as and 2.5" disks are coming down in price.
shawnzSep 13, 2006
mywhitenoise: you contradict yourself. you say there are always ways to change the theme, and then say that you need a third party program to do it? i don't get it -- either you can never change the theme or the mac comes with a themer app.sorry, but i calls fanboyism like i sees it.
soulscribeSep 13, 2006
Many people seem to want to unify the appearance of OSX, giving each application the same look and feel. Personally, I like that different apps have slightly different UI, it gives each app a particular character and makes distinguishing it from the others simpler. I tried UNO, but after a few hours I switched back to the regular interface because it was harder to find the window I was looking for.Apple has had plenty of time to refine and unify the look of OSX, but while they continue to refined it, they haven't ever unified it.As for iTunes, I think swewacide is right about the changes in iTunes being the result of its "crossplatformedness," iTunes on Windows looks out of place on windows due largely to the use of gloss and transparency. Perhaps apple will bring back some of the gloss to itunes when windows users switch to vista.
coolbruSep 13, 2006
Are you in marketing? Or did you just fall for the hype?
mikepxSep 13, 2006
It's LINUX!!!! Why the hell would Apple want to look like an OS that only self important nerds use for bragging rights!? LINUX LOOKS HORRIBLE!
nicpSep 13, 2006
I modded you down because most people dont have their music library only on their ipod. Most people want their music on their ipod and on their computer, this is because the ipod is designed to be synced to an itunes library, this allows you to play all your music from your computer which many people do, but also gives you a backup of your library (who would trust a hard disk thats reading data while you are running not to fail!). Having said that i do agree that the extra view options should be avaliable for ipods and also for shared libraries on other computers.Out of interest how come you guys dont keep your libraries on your hard disk too? 3.5" disks are cheap as and 2.5" disks are coming down in price.
ryanjohnstonSep 13, 2006
I know! It is making it hard to find all of the Colbert Report clips!
vitriolixSep 13, 2006
wow, that pretty much looks like ass.