Old favorites die hard. The stink around Apple’s change to the Itunes logo is typical of the “what was wrong with the old one” attitude that can be so pervasive even amongst the earliest of adopters — technology junkies.
We are seeing this already in a number of web design layouts (see www.weather.com) and written here quite prophetically here prior to the Itunes 10 release.
Change is inevitable and while there are often change clunkers like “New Coke” (1985), the reality is change in design is usually a good thing.
Whether we like the design or not, expect to see much more flat coming out in the next year. Steve Jobs continues to influence our design paradigms, whether we like it or not.
