What's with the retro iTunes icon?

Interesting thing here I noticed is that the new Windows Media Player 11 page has a very iTunes-ish flair about it,I blogged here with a brief comparison:

http://torley.com/windows-media-player-11s-page-looks-too-apple/

Does anyone know why I don't have any icons for ITunes, QuickTime and AppleSoftware Update on my desktop or in my start menu?
I downloaded ITunes 7 and instead of seeing new icons you all are talking about, mines just disappeared and only show that regular shortcut thingie...
(=O(

HELP!

Regarding the EQ button, you may or may not know this:

View>View options... brings up the opportunity to add the equalizer settings to the main UI display, allowing you to set different EQ settings for each song.

Strangely, talk of the icon is a bit wasted on me. On my iBook and iMac I see what you are saying and actually like the new one. On my Windows box I am getting no customised iTunes or Quicktime icons at all. They seem to have been hijacked by the icons for Nero Photosnap or some such and I don't know how to fix it.

There's definitely something "off" about the new icon. The shadows feel heavier, and it looks a bit clunkier. This could be just compression at play, but the icon looks especially bad on this page:

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

(top right)

If you seriously think the iTunes UI looks anything like Windows, get your eyes checked out.

It's funny how every UI change by Apple results in yells of "gross!". The gumdrops of Aqua are over five years old, from the era of the translucent 1G iMac. It stopped looking cutting-edge around the time that every cheap Taiwanese USB hub was built to resemble that paradigm.

Look at the Apple.com of today. Now go to the Wayback machine and look at it five years ago. Look at the MacBook Pro, the new Nano, and the Mac Pro. Compare them to the Tangerine iBook and the Flower Power iMac. Which era does the new "dark unified" belong to, and which era does Aqua belong to?

One complaint I agree with is the loss of the EQ button without even a keyboard shortcut to lessen the blow. PLEASE don't force me to use menus, Apple. A big reason I switched was your UI design which eliminated the need for menus in day-to-day things.

The new icon is an abomination. On my 17 in iMac LCD at native res (1440x900), it looks pixelated anc cheap, and the disc has color banding as if I was running my screen on 256 colors (It's on millions of colors). It's a shame compared to all the nice OS X icons, and the previous iTunes 6 icon, which looked smooth and clean. Actually the new icon reminds me of shitty Windows icon or Mac OS 8 icon. Are we going back in time or what??

Well that article was posted before the event (as in the night before), and the first line reads "Ok, it's time for some last minute rumor mongering" keyword there being "rumor."

I'm not sure how I feel about the new UI in iTunes. I don't think it's ugly, it just feels so....un-OS X like, for some reason it reminds me of Linux, and maybe even what Vista would look like minus the glass. If Leopard implements it system-wide I suppose I'll get used to it quick.

One thing I don't like is that downloads no longer appear in that main "now playing" window along the top (that has the Apple logo when nothing is playing or downloading), so if I keep iTunes minimized to just the playback controls I can't tell if my podcasts are actually updating or not.

The Coverflow integration is great, and I especially like the "hybrid" view that shows the artwork along the side in the main area. The iPod "info" page that pops up when you mount your iPod is also pretty slick.

This guy (author of this article) is a moron. Look at what he posts:

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/11/apples-agenda-for-the-media-event/

Follow up your stories and admit they are false.

It is definitely a more pleasing color than green...every time i see it I have this burning desire to click on it...but i have work to do so this is a very hard day for me.