Comments on: Blast from the Past: The Apple Store Online

By: kerflop

kerflop — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:22:37 +0000

Here from Veerle. @Brian, wow – seriously? I hated those aqua tabs so much my teeth hurt. I don’t mind Aqua in Tiger, but those horrible tabs on their website were awful. The text was hard to read in the glossy submenu beneath the tabs. I much prefer the new navigation.

I do see the reference to oscommerce, which I generally hate, but that’s a popular ecommerce design because it works well. At least Apple’s isn’t full of tables

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:54:23 +0000

Those are/were legit.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:21:07 +0000

How much ya wanna bet those are warezed versions of Photoshop and Illustrator

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:12:18 +0000

Glad I am not the only one who sees the new design as a downgrade. I know the liquid tabs were copied everywhere but that was for good reason. The new navigation bar is plain ugly, the Apple Store image looks amateur and overall it looks like an OSCommerce template. And that is ignoring the excessive quicktime movies which take ages to load and actually crash Firefox.

Sorry for the spleen venting but their design is usually so good, I couldn’t believe they would take a step back.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:56:25 +0000

Apple used to be Brand driven by Product and Communication.
Today, Products take over and Communication becomes more commercial.
Especially from the web.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:55:27 +0000

Oh Apple, how I adore you and all your fruitful ways. I love you *so much*, Apple.

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:53:22 +0000

Had you taken that screenshot a few months ago it was have been much more similar since they just recently replaced those buttons.

By: Armie D

Armie D — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:04:14 +0000

THey use Ajax on their current site now, don’t they? Always admired them for their simplistic and elegant approach to ALMOST everything they do.