Posts Tagged ‘Filed’
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
In my post introducing iTunes 10, I mentioned that the new iTunes logo was sure to be controversial. Looks like I got that right! Wired News is reporting that a designer emailed Steve Jobs to tell him that the new logo “sucks” and throws away a decade of “instant product recognition.” The designer, Josh Kopac, got one of Steve’s trademark terse responses: “We disagree.”
A lot of people in the design community agree with Kopac that the iTunes 10 logo has got to go. Check out Dribbble, the playground where lots of pro designers preview their new work, and you’ll find several replacement iTunes 10 icons already. One that seems to have gained real traction is a magenta version by Chris Carlozzi. It’s got 154 likes on Dribbble, and has been touted by other blogs as the icon iTunes 10 should have had.
If you don’t love the new logo, take your pick of icons from Dribbble, or show us some other alternatives you like better. If you think the new logo’s just fine, here’s your chance to offer a defense in the comments.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Facebook Connect is missing from Apple’s new social network, iTunes Ping, after it was apparently working on Wednesday night. There seem to be mixed messages coming from Apple, according to interviews that All Things D’s Kara Swisher conducted with Apple honcho Steve Jobs and VP Phil Schiller.
Jobs said Facebook Connect wasn’t in Ping, and gave a dismissive “I guess we could do that.” Meanwhile, Schiller said you can absolutely find your friends on Ping using Facebook Connect. Both are wrong, though: Apple apparently DID do that, and now the feature is gone.
However, there are clues that Facebook Connect was meant to be in iTunes. If you’re following no one, you’ll see a message on your People page that says, “You are not following anyone. Connect with Facebook, search for people, invite friends, or follow recommended people to get started.” Facebook Connect is even mentioned in the Welcome to Ping email you get when you first sign up.
At this point, it’s a mystery whether Facebook Connect will be back, but I hope it will. Although Jobs says Facebook demanded “onerous terms” from Apple, using Facebook Connect is way faster than manually adding all your friends to Ping. Hey Steve, can we get a Twitter or Gmail connect, at least?
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Everyone knows that users hate change, so it’s no surprise that the new version of Digg has got people up in arms. Despite new user registration for the site going way up since the launch of v.4, people have identified about a dozen separate issues with the new layout, from actual bugs to petty nitpicks. Digg’s Kevin Rose addressed them in a new blog post, explaining the reasoning behind some changes, and promising fixes for others.
Here are the key points:
The Upcoming section, removed because it got only a tiny percentage of Digg’s total page views, is coming back in some form. The bury button is also gone, but it’s not coming back. Rose says removing the button was a way of shutting down the organized “bury brigades,” who were systematically censoring certain viewpoints and topics on Digg.
There are a ton of bugs that Rose acknowledges and promises to fix, including issues with RSS feeds, third-party Digg tools, and missing favorites. It sounds like some people think the new design of the site ought to be filed as a bug, but Kevin’s response, apart from pledging to look into some specific usability issues, is basically that you’ll just have to get used to it.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Fresh on the heels of a recent spate of suicides, it seems that Foxconn and Apple are determined to make the workers of the sprawling Shenzhen complex a bit happier. Generally speaking, if you’re looking to brighten somebody’s day, paying them more money is a great start.
Apparently, the focus groups and deep investigations have led Hon Hai Precision Industry to the same conclusion, because Foxconn employees are now getting a 30% raise. The raise, which is already in effect, will bring their monthly income from the equivalent of about $131.77 up to $171.30 (USD). Foxconn management was originally going to raise the employees’ salary by 20%, but it seems they’re more committed to really good PR than anybody gave them credit for.
But that’s not even the half of it. Rumor now has it that Steve Jobs is going to release between 1% and 2% of total sales of all Apple products manufactured at Foxconn to the workers who built them. This profit-sharing is supposedly starting with the iPad, which has already sold over 2 million units in less than 2 months. Even at 1%, that amounts to several million dollars heading back to Shenzhen and straight into the employees’ pockets. That is, if the rumors turn out to be true.
On that note, where can I get a job application for the Apple section at Foxconn?
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
According to Microsoft’s chief security advisor in Australia, some companies refuse to upgrade to the latest versions of Internet Explorer because keeping employees on IE6 keeps them off of Facebook. As you’ve probably noticed if you’ve tried to sign into any contemporary social networking sites on IE6 … it doesn’t exactly work. Facebook shows a message telling you to upgrade your browser, and some features won’t work at all. Basically, IE6 is being used as a Facebook blocker.
Microsoft thinks you should upgrade your browser, too. The same security guy implied that keeping IE6 just to block Facebook is a total cop out when you could just talk to your employees about acceptable uses of company time, and then upgrade them to the faster, more secure IE8. I’ll go ahead and say what Microsoft can’t: this IE6 policy is asinine. I don’t know who these companies are, but I feel terrible for anyone who has to work for them.
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