TapeDeck 1.0

Love it, guys. Congrats. An app that truly follows the "Mac way" of designing software : straight to the point and really fun to use.

Wiiiii. Amazing good looking app

"Call me a curmudgeon if you must, but I am wary of any app that replicates a physical object with its UI. Isn't a large part of the power of computing come from the fact that programmers can transcend the limitations of the real world and offer up better ways of doing things?"

What, like the command line over the desktop metaphor? Nah, I'm just taking the piss. I know what you mean, but i couldn't help my self.

Sincerely, I love it !!

I'm a professional musician and for taking on-the-go ideas or notes, this is a great product.

The UI doesn't bother me at all, I feel it amusing. Since this kind of app need to be simple and strait-forward, IMO it achieved these goals. Good job!

Being dismissive of physical UIs is shortsighted. There have been far more years of development and refinement of the things we use in the "real world" every day than there have of computer interfaces. There's a lot to be said for familiarity (which geeks usually substitute with "intuitive").

that will be cool to appear on iPhone, just like the iPhone's calculator that turn iPhone into a, well, calculator.

But electronic media players already do that.

Example: I have a cassette player in my car that has an Aux input I use for my MP3 player. Let's see; if I want to skip over some tape, I push the fast forward button and it unloads the capstan and moves the tape faster. If I want to skip over some MP3 I push and hold the forward button and it skips over material in imitation of skipping over tape. The cassette player can search for empty space in the tape; the MP3 player can skip to the next track. When I stop the cassette deck it's automatically left where I stopped listening. When I stop the MP3 player it remembers where I stopped. (Though not if it stops because the battery runs out.)

Example: My DVD player will pretend to fast-forward like my VHS deck, it will try to remember where I stopped playing a DVD, and so on.

Problem is, the designers have to very meticulously engineer in functions that imitate what the tapes do by their very nature; and I can have an unlimited number of tapes "remember" where they left off, but the digital player has to have enough memory and special features (like the ability to recognize a disc) to remember multiple digital media. The imitations are usually good, and in some ways better than the old way, but they can also fail very easily.

(Oh, and I can instantly swap tapes, but my MP3 player has to be re-programmed. And it takes longer to load and unload a DVD than it does a VHS tape.)

Before I get flamed, understand that I'm not saying the old way is better. I'm just pointing out that the old way was good enough that we're going out of our way to make our new players pretend to work the same way.

The arrows on the buttons don't indicate tape direction any more, do they? :)

I don't understand why you would hate mimicking physical devices. The recording industry models many of it's plugins from physical hardware units because they are known to sound amazing. This isn't only behind the scenes but in the UI of the plugins. They emulate physical hardware mixing consoles/compresors/reverb units/etc. In the audio industry this is quite common, that's all.

Scott, you're an Editor, right? :-P

Physical objects like a desktop and folders, you mean?