Apple's ugly YouTube channel

Apple has designed some beautiful stuff over the years, from the ][e (hey, I think it looks good) to the iPod, but you can take the new OfficialApple YouTube channel off that list -- it's hideous. The glaringly huge sidebar ads got squished and crunched, and managed to make even the new nanos and iPod touches look ugly.

On the plus side, the channel offers lots of Apple videos in the YouTube player, from tutorials to tours to TV ads, so that's nice -- what YouTube videos lack in quality they make up for in ease of use and playability. Sure, the comments aren't much to read (unless you're a glutton for punishment), but at least the videos work.

But what did they do to those icons?! I'm tempted just to report the background with the link at the bottom of the page -- not because it's offensive or crude, but just because it's so badly done.

Update: The evil, unpleasant background is gone. Most commenters, justifiably, are quite skeptical that this is an actual Apple effort (could it be the 'ca' Canadian prefix?) -- we'll ask Apple.

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Source: http://ca.youtube.com/user/OfficialApple

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Bruce

Apple â€” the ones with MobileMe and a Quicktime page â€”Â use YouTube? Uhhâ€¦it's fake. Also suspended.

October 01 2008 at 7:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

"This account is suspended", no more Apple YouTubeary.

October 01 2008 at 2:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alansky

YouTube's site design is ugly as sin, so what does anyone expect? If you want to play in YouTube's sandbox, you have to make do with YouTube scenery. That said, the YouTube Apple channel doesn't impress me as something that Apple would have put out there. But who knows?

September 30 2008 at 12:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Seth Amott

I just don't see Apple doing something like this. They feed all their ads and videos in an attractive, ad free, high quality environment on Apple.com with Quicktime. Just about every machine that has Flash is bound to have the Quicktime plugin as well. I just can not imagine Apple doing it, I just don't see that they would reach anybody "new" using YouTube. I guess anything is possible though.

September 30 2008 at 3:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy Bewernick

Ha ha! My Apple Youtube channel looks better than that: http://www.youtube.com/Apple3GiPhone

September 30 2008 at 2:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam Fisher-Cox

You idiots, for precisely the reasons you outlined, it is CLEARLY NOT APPLE'S OFFICIAL YOUTUBE PAGE. You think that just because it says Official means it is?

September 29 2008 at 11:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

The web designer and developer should be fired. The code is horrible. The design is grade school. I do not think Apple designed this site. Not a chance.

September 29 2008 at 10:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Abhimat Gautam

If it was official (like the Google Page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/google), there wouldn't be a friends
section, I think.

September 29 2008 at 10:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Abhimat Gautam

If it was official (like the Google Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/google), there wouldn't be a friends section, I think.

September 29 2008 at 10:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

now4real954

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
PAGE LOOKS FINE TO ME...MAYBE THEY DID SOMETHING TO IT SINCE YOU WROTE THIS POST...BUT IT LOOKS OK TO ME
GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT!

September 29 2008 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply