Filed under: Cult of Mac, iTunes
Not much to say about this, other than check it out: A Macteens gallery member posted a pictorial history of Apple's iTunes icons, starting from the wonky multi-note CD to the slick blue one gracing us now. Most of us remember these icons pretty well, but it's cool to be able to analyze the subtle differences in each (i.e., how the CDs get more pronounced with each iteration).Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brad said 10:15AM on 9-13-2006
Eh, it's not that great of a timeline.
Anyone else distracted by the boobs in the corner?
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CcntMnky said 10:23AM on 9-13-2006
The ad is less distracting if you blow it up in the center of the screen. Then you're just focusing :)
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Stefan K said 10:26AM on 9-13-2006
very distracting that corner indeed...
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Peter White said 11:02AM on 9-13-2006
already clicked on it twice :
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bingegamer said 11:23AM on 9-13-2006
Well, we've definitely lost to the advertising industry on this one, :P.
BTW, someone should make an icon pack for these old iTunes versions... unless it already exists and I'm dumb.
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Billy K said 2:15PM on 9-13-2006
Amazing timeline. No, really.
One commenter mentioned that the CD is getting more vertical. True. I bet the CD disappears completely in the next version and is replaced by some ol' circle.
Think about it - iTunes is hardly about playing CDs anymore. It suely was back in the olden days of 1.0 and 2.0, but who plays a CD in iTunes anymore? Usually it's only in there long enough to rip.
If there is a point to the iPod/iTunes digital music combo, it's that CDs aren't necessary. Yet the icon still prominently displays one. I bet it's gone soon.
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Aaron Priven said 2:59PM on 9-13-2006
That's a good point. Maybe they should replace it with an LP.
Or a wax cylinder.
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Laurens-Jan said 11:14AM on 9-20-2006
The restyled iTunes 7 logo is butt-ugly IMHO. I'm seriously considering removing it from my Dock to keep my Camino and Transmit icons from becoming infected with Ugly Disease.
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Reid said 10:28PM on 9-14-2006
i hate the new look. why blue??? it looks like crap
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Bryan Goertz said 1:17AM on 9-15-2006
yeah... the boobs.... one minute i'm checking out stuff i intended to inform myself of - hence the name of the blog site... and all of a sudden.... not apple, but boobs. Weird.
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Gavin Strange said 2:23PM on 9-18-2006
I hate this new icon! It just seems really old fashioned for some reason. Not sure why btut I just dont like it!
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