Comments on: When Will They Update The iTunes Icon?

By: ookwormbay7

ookwormbay7 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:37:05 +0000

ok then, you got what you wanted…but saying “I think they should replace this with…something” clearly didn’t give apple enough feedback as to what they should replace it WITH. I wish the new one had a bit more realism to it.

By: Bru

Bru — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:45:14 +0000

Don’t really like the new icon :(

Maybe cause its just something new on my desktop.

By: The CD is dead, says iTunes 10 | App Culture

The CD is dead, says iTunes 10 | App Culture — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:07:17 +0000

[...] Jobs took the stage yesterday to announce iTunes 10, a release that brings a small but significant change to one of the most recognizable logos in the world. There’s no more CD! Ever eager to abandon technologies they consider “vintage”, Apple has dropped the humble compact disc. Given the runaway success of the iTunes Store, this isn’t surprising– especially since the original purpose of iTunes was to “rip” music from CDs you already owned. In fact, many people already thought the logo was painfully out of date. [...]

By: Paul Masson

Paul Masson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:17:50 +0000

New icon today with iTunes 10 – and the CD is gone.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:06:29 +0000

@C – Like I said, it’s an eventual thing, especially because Apple doesn’t sell CDs, they sell MP3s.

By: C

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:53:57 +0000

HOLD ON! The cd’s day is not fully behind us! If you go into a big name music shop, do you find hundreds of vinyls facing you? No! You are looking at rows of cds. Maybe the majority of music that circulates nowadays is in mp3 format, but cds are still the prvalent medium for “physical” music. Vinyl is only the main format for SOME parts of the indie/underground/elderly/some others music markets, which everybody knows is not the standard music taste (if you’ll excuse my murder of the english language). So THERE! Leave the iTunes logo as a cd.

Of course I own a Zen as apposed to an ipod and a PC as apposed to a Mac so none of this really affects me.

By: richiee

richiee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:26:48 +0000

I, too, got tired of the old iTunes icon. Found got replacement right here: http://pixelgirlpresents.com/node/7005

The Matryoshka icons are now in my dock for iTunes and iPhoto.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:47:43 +0000

Pardon me. Much more succinctly:

When your _parents_ stop thinking of music as CDs (assuming of course they’ve moved beyond vinyl), then it’s time to change the icon.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:42:01 +0000

Good question, though I think you’re being to literal.

Popular iconography can frequently (and IMO often _should_) lag behind the modern specifics of the system it represents. The psychological underpinnings work the same way that stage theatre productions work; actors are often acting “for the back row,” that is to say emoting in a broad fashion to ensure that the right tone communicates for someone who may not be right next to you.

Visual communication is no different. We may pull imagery that outdated or even obsolete to the referent you’re describing, if only because of the lasting power and broad understanding of the look of the previous generation. Trying to symbolize television? You might use rabbit ear antenna, even though that tech hasn’t been in use for ages, but a wide section of the population is familiar with that form to broadly mean “TV”.

Consider The Matrix. The dominant imagery they use to symbolize “Computers & Technology” is green text on a black screen. We’ve not actually used that in computing for generations, but it still has the power to read as visual shorthand for _computers_ to the masses.

Bottom line is, yeah, the image of the CD is becoming outdated, but I’d be surprised if Apple changed the icon for at least another couple of years.

By: Jon Strong

Jon Strong — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:03:59 +0000

Check out the work of Jonas Rask. He’s an absolutely incredible icon designer — I use his stuff for everything. His iTunes icon is simply a music speaker with the classic colored note above it.

http://jonasraskdesign.com/iconarchive/iconarchive.html