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….