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/
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.
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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.