All about the new, improved App Store in iTunes 9.0.2

The target audience for the new redesign is:

People with big screens AND those who are interested mostly on screenshots.

The problem is that the text lines extend way too much, and it looks awfully disorganized.

Mantia's design is a pretty good fix for the issue. With the screenshots on top, the app descriptions don't have to be truncated, and it still looks balanced.

Apple did NOT get it right this time..

Never mind horizontal scrollbars. I can live with that. But who forgot to attach the style sheet?

Frankly it looks HORRIBLE. Too much whitespace, not enough delinetation between areas of the page. Non-obvious means of displaying the key information - I mean who would *expect* to have to hit 'More' to get a basic description.

Maybe their tablet only does HTML2? I can't think of any other excuse for this.

Don't you mean green highlight?:
"Attached to the Buy App button is a small pop-up menu (yellow highlight) that enables..."

But a excellent post (better than some cr*p that's been appearing around here lately).

I don't like it at all. The scrolling frames to look at the screenshots look like crap. And why do have to take an extra step to click on more to see the description? Doesn't seem much like Apple to me.

I like it more than the previous one, but I really wish they would change/update the iPhone's App Store.

Two other things I just noticed.

First, for recently updated apps (and maybe not-so-recently updated ones; I didn't check) an area just below the description appears titled 'What's New in Version 1.x', with a list of what's new. Before the changes, I believe developers had to put this info in the long description are that used to be along the right-hand side.

Second, below the Customer Ratings in the left column is a list of the top In-App Purchases if the given app has in-app purchases. These used to only be viewable on the iPhone/iPod touch App Store.app

The design by mantia fixes the two biggest blunders of the new design:
1) Having to click to actually see full description, especially what data connections and OS versions are supported - kind of important!
2) Formatting the description in a column width that is actually readable. Doesn't Apple have any UI guidelines anymore?!

the horizontal scroll bars are amateurish, like using frames on a webpage from 15 years ago. i have a feeling they're going to add buttons to "slide" a set of images to the right or left.

in the meantime, for those of us with scroll wheels on our mouse, holding the SHIFT key and scrolling at least works.

I like the change. Much nice, IMO.

"The old version simply showed one screenshot and required clicking on the picture to move to the next screen image."

That's simply not true. The old version had a back and forward button below the picture and you clicked on one to navigate. I thought it was much more elegant than the new image version and was easy to figure out. The new image version just looks cluttered which is very un-Apple like.