Since Apple announced version 10 of iTunes on Wednesday there has been a bit of an online uproar over the redesigned icon. I’ll agree it may be a bit garish and perhaps not as refined as other Apple applications but at the end of the day it is just an icon!
If you really don’t like the new iTunes logo you can quite easily change it to a different icon if you can’t bear to look at it.
In fact, several talented folk on Dribbble have already designed some rather snazzy replacements for you to use:
So, if you really can’t stand to see the new icon in your dock you can quite simply change it over for something else. Easy! No need to get overly frustrated or angry over an icon.
Instead of moaning about the icon change (which, I’ll admit, I was guilty of doing myself when I first saw it) I’ve come up with a list of three things going on in the world that I think are more important and far more worthy of our concern than the iTunes 10 icon:
3 Genuinely Important Things:
1. Pakistan Floods – Donate online to the DEC Pakistan Floods Appea.
2. World Wildlife Fund – Become a member, adopt an animal or make a donation.
3. Oxfam UK – Get involved, raise money or donate online to Oxfam UK.
Sorry for the ranting blog post, if anything I wrote it to remind myself that an icon is just an icon – something nice to look at – and not something worth getting angry about. 
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Nice article Phil, I also was guilty of having a moan about the icon, but after a couple of hours I felt the same as you, meh! it’s just an icon.
I might actually adopt an animal for my fiancee’s Xmas
Cheers Alan
I was the same with the Twitter iPhone app icon when they redesigned it. I loved the original and was upset they changed but, as you say, after a few days you forget about it!
Yeah, good post Phil. Agree totally, give it a few weeks and it will just be iTunes not the new iTunes logo. The old one was no oil painting either but everyone put up with that for a decade!
Pardon my english, but WTF? I’m ok, there’s more important than the iTunes icon, but we’re talking about design uh?
Thanks very much for commenting Imrage. Perhaps I was being a bit over the top but my point was that while it is fine not to like a design (design is subjective after all) I just felt the anger shown towards the new icon was a little too extreme when it is easy to change it if you don’t like it.
I didn’t like the icon myself when I first saw it but it is growing on me more and more!
Nice article mate!
I disagree, you could say that about anything, so why do we make pretty websites ??? In the end is just a website right?
There is no need to be angry about that red background and yellow font, within few days we would all get used to it anyway isn’t it so ?
Of course the are more important things in life than an itunes icon, but when nobody gives feedback that the icon in the new itunes look bad than it will never change.
Take the previous generation of ipod shuffle everybody wanted the buttons back, and what happened now ? Apple came back to the previous design with the buttons.
I’m just sayin…
i like this article – It’s rare I come on here and come away feeling all existential. Screw designing websites today – I’m gonna pour a coffee and philosophise…
Great article dude ……..
Yeah it is a fair point, there are more important things going on in the world. Also imagine how low the designer must feel now and we don’t even know what restrictions he/she had in regards to the design process.
good article, thanks for putting it up!
I still miss the old icon. I think a little more color would have really helped. It looks like a stock vector image. This isn’t as bad as the new Gap logo however…
I think the new apple icon is relevant for today’s digital media. iTunes makes big business on mp3 downloads and I bet there are few people who import CDs rather than import MP3s. The CD in the background of the old icon is dated and in a few years time the CD may well be obsolete!
I agree with a few people i did miss the old icon too and wasnt fussed on the new one, but then when i looked at them both and realised the last time i used a cd to play music was long ago so time to move forward
I wonder how much of the dislike is simply due to people not liking change. It’s no masterpiece of design, but it’s better than the old one.
Interesting that it’s the CD of the old one which dates it – presumably the intention behind the change was that we don’t associate CDs with new music any more.
Excellent article! I agree there are much more important things than Itunes icon. But we also must admit the icon sucks
Its an icon people! hehe
Nice one.
Thanks,
David
This is a wonderful blog.. Thanks for it.
Keep sharing more and more
Makes sense really. Who buys CD’d these days?
its a different kind of post,i dont like the new itunes logo but i like the three options that you share specially the mid one.
I think the middle one looks fantastic!
Well, new iTunes logos are attractive than old one
Nice article, I agree with Phil
The old logo definitely stood out more but looking at the new one doesn’t exactly cause me instant nausea, why all the fuss?