Apple today debuted a redesigned Apple.com which features a simplified navigation bar containing these eight main categories:
• Home (Apple logo)
• Store
• Mac
• iPod+iTunes
• iPhone
• Downloads
• Support
• Search box
Subsections include:
• Mac
– Accessories (Mighty Mouse, AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Cinema Displays)
– Macs (Mac Pro, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac)
– Applications (10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, QuickTime, .Mac, iLife, iWork, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Logic Pro, Logic Express, Shake)
– Servers (Xserve, Xserve RAID, Mac OS X Server)
• iPod+iTunes
– iTunes
– iPod and Apple TV
– Accessories
• iPhone
– adds a new “Showcase” gallery of images
See the new Apple.com here: http://www.apple.com/
Hmmmm, I find the tool bar hard to read. Black letters on dark gray background.
Any one else got this image or do I have something set weird??
en
.mac is now hidden in a little box on the Mac page. 🙁
i have no problem reading it
Progress bar on demo video is hard/impossible to see, in Camino or Safari 2 … 🙁
Maybe a few bugs still to exterminate?
I meant the download progress bar part, not the play indicator
The new pic of the hand holding the iPhone is so much better. I always thought the old one made it look a bit bigger than it is, and the hand looked unnatural. The highlight on the surface of the phone makes it look much more real.
Why does the iPhone have it’s own section? it’s one product, and not a single other product has it’s own (the entire iPod line has to share space with iTunes, and the entire Mac line shares with OS X software. WHY?)
Does everything have to be coverflow now?
@ Paul Walker
Well, the iPhone IS an entire line, it just currently only contains one product.
iPhone is a platform, not “one product.’ Just like the Mac. iPod+iTunes, of course, should be grouped together.
I’m not a fan of the new design. It doesn’t navigate as well.
Art Rogue
Oh, and I’m typing this in Safari on XP on Parallels on my MacPro. Not bad for a Windows app!
To Paul Walker…
The iphone has it’s own section because it is its own business within Apple. Apple is now has 3 distinct business that it is in Mac (computer), iPod/iTunes, and iPhone (telephones).
As is pretty obvious, iPhone is a Category. iPod+iTunes+aTV is a Category. Mac+OSX+Servers+Apps is a Category.
iPhone is being promoted as a platform.
a little bit heavy on the Cover Flow…
i think they’re gonna milk that technology for all its worth.
the original developer (Apple bought CF from some guy) might be in a bad mood now, like:
“darn it, i should have demanded an extra 0 on that paycheck for Cover Flow…”
Canadian website is unchanged. Of note, we have NEVER had the iPhone shown on Apple.ca. A search of Apple.ca shows a few news bits relating to iTunes and the iPhone – but no dedicated iPhone specific info…. despite the rumors that a Canadian carrier (Rogers) will be offering it around September.
Anyone notice the silver apple logo has a little slash in it on the main bar?
Beautiful redesign!! Absolutely love it!
@war,
To be more specific:
Mac (computing)
iTunes/iPod (entertainment)
iPhone (communications)
Umm, it’s still brushed metal !?
I like the new design. They’ve been slowing updating parts of it in this direction, but I’ve always been a bit disappointed in the design of their site. This one looks much cooler.
Tim, that’s not a slash through the Apple, it’s just reflective shading.
zero: Ain’t that the truth. I hope they hired the guy, and didn’t just buy the idea from him. Otherwise he is probably thinking through the “what if I had only…” right now.
gog: It is NOT brushed metal (notice the absence of horizontal streaks). It is flat gray.
> Umm, it’s still brushed metal !?
It’s “metallic” looking, but it’s not “brushed metal.” It’s the new look for Leopard. Safari 3.0 running in Tiger still has the brushed metal look. Safari 3.0 in Windows has this new metallic look, matching the new apple.com. No doubt Safari 3.0 running in Leopard will have the “new” look. And the new iMacs will probably sport this new shiny metal look as well.
@ DistantThunder
nope, they got it without the man behind it.
from wikipedia:
… It was created by an independent Macintosh developer, Jonathan del Strother. Some had viewed CoverFlow as a must-have Mac OS X app throughout 2005 and 2006 for its ability to give its user an intuitive, emotional, and efficient way to flip through one’s record collections visually.
Perhaps due to this widespread adoption and accolade, CoverFlow was purchased by Apple Computer and integrated into its flagship jukebox application, iTunes….
The new design may just be temporary. Looks nice now, but I think its “novelty” will wear off in a while.
@ChrissyOne
“Oh, and I’m typing this in Safari on XP on Parallels on my MacPro. Not bad for a Windows app!”
And it all just works. That is the neat part. !!!!!
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and @Justified.
Right on.
en
The “Apple Outlet” thing died a quick death – maybe too chintsy for Stevereno? 17″ iMacs and Mac Minis live on for another day
What is with the iPod page and the ‘seamlessly integrate with your Auto’ click through? It just dumps you into the car manufacturer homepage. Starting to advertise cars on the Apple website. Clearly not cool.
looks like darth vader’s myspace page.
<i>”The “Apple Outlet” thing died a quick death – maybe too chintsy for Stevereno? 17″ iMacs and Mac Minis live on for another day.” —Clara Voyany
What are you talking about? Just click the Store tab. This takes you to the familiar Store home page, where you’ll find Refurbished Macs under Special Deals, where it has been for as long as I can remember. The “Apple Outlet” was just a new name somebody thought of that apparently didn’t last.
@mm
CoverFlow is something you choose to use or not according to your preference.
It isn’t a case of ‘having to’…
mac is now hidden in a little box on the Mac page. 🙁 —J
You can also find .Mac by clicking the Mac tab, then the Applications tab. Looks like .Mac has been relegated to second-class citizenship after Steve promised to make it better. We’ll see about that.
The search box works like Spotlight.
Another thing about the .Mac section…. in the previous version you could log in and see links to all the iWeb pages you have uploaded. Not anymore. Now they are nowhere to be found, and if you haven’t bookmarked one of your pages before (like me), just how in blazes do you find its URL????
I finally managed to do it by looking at my iDisk structure and a fair amount of trial & error. It ain’t obvious.
> in the previous version you could log in and see links to all the iWeb pages you have uploaded.
How about logging in and then clicking on “Homepage,” on second text line of the web page (right below the main tabs)? I get a listing of my web pages. Seems pretty visible.
That sliding bar on the “Mac tab” is very cool. Interestingly, while .Mac is relegated to a single not very obvious spot on the lineup, Airport Express and Airport Extreme EACH have their own spots. And even Mighty Mouse get its own spot.
Maybe Apple is going to REALLY partner with Google and let Google take over servicing and support for .Mac users.
They burried the Federal Government Store down under a “Where To Buy” link on the Mac tab of the homepage. Wouldn’t logic have placed it under the Store tab next to the Education, Business and International links which are grouped in the More Stores area instead? Go figure! A big Doh! for whoever put it under the Mac tab. Oh, and searching for the store through the search function returns ziltch. Niiiiice.
HOLY SHIT!
did anyone notice the LIVE SEARCH now available at Apple.com!!!!!!!!!!!
try it for yourself!
ahhh rats I shuda read the post first……..
I love the new “Core animation” feel to the website, but I think the design is ugly.
I love the new features in this Safari, like stretching the text field, but I was hoping it wouldn’t be brush metal.
The new site offers a major DEMOTION to .Mac, just days after Steve’s comments on improvements to .Mac coming soon (All Things D conference).
Doesn’t make much sense to me…
I like the search box, works like spotlight–good thing–that was the only way I could find the widget section, since they got rid of mac support window section I do like the coverflow part at the top of some of the section its alot nicer to just move through the product without having to scroll down all the time
ken1w said:
“> in the previous version you could log in and see links to all the iWeb pages you have uploaded.
How about logging in and then clicking on “Homepage,” on second text line of the web page (right below the main tabs)? I get a listing of my web pages. Seems pretty visible.”
That lists your pages you have created using HomePage. Pages you’ve made using iWeb aren’t there.