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iTunes for Windows Reaches Alpha (Screenshots) | |
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| Time: 07:08 EST/12:08 GMT | News Source: TopTechTips | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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We've had a number of now confirmed reports that iTunes for Windows has already reached the alpha stage of development. A release of the program for Windows leaked yesterday to a few people and showed an early look at how iTunes for Windows may turn out to be. | ||
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| #1 By 61 (24.92.223.112) at 6/18/2003 2:17:49 PM |
| Please, Apple, enough with the dagum brushed metal look. |
| #2 By 3339 (66.219.95.6) at 6/18/2003 5:00:24 PM |
| AJ's right. Sorry, boys... Byron. What would be the point of an alpha with zero functionality? This will not come til the end of the year. The key pieces won't come until Apple locks up Roxio... oops, is that a rumor? |
| #3 By 3339 (66.219.95.6) at 6/18/2003 6:08:55 PM |
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Mr. Dee, Brian's a very straight up guy. The app is real; he's simply being fooled by a PC app (that was designed to look like the Mac UI and iTunes). Photoshop has nothing to do with it.
Consider it this way: why would the most secretive company in the industry release an "Alpha" (it came with a pathetic, non-Apple-style read-me) for an app that just features mp3 playback? With no associated QuickTime update, no CD burning, no iPod connectivity, no iTMS, no smart playlists.... um, what's to test? What's Alpha? Why would secretive Apple release an app that only demonstrates they can accomplish limited functionality, poor responsiveness, and bugginess for 10% of their best consumer app? Any hack could get such an mp3 player running in no time flat; there is nothing to test or see here at all. I'm a little disappointed by Brian (not that he isn't frequently wrong--he is) but at least, he clearly states he knows its a real app, and he does question the authenticity of its source and purpose. This post was edited by sodajerk on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 20:02. |
| #4 By 3339 (66.219.95.6) at 6/18/2003 6:11:41 PM |
| Not too mention, Byron. He's quickly becoming the number one source of salacious but completely wrong Apple rumors.... But I'll give 'em a break--he's new to this game. |
| #5 By 3339 (66.219.95.6) at 6/19/2003 1:07:18 AM |
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Brian runs Artificial Cheese. The guy Mr. Dee is accusing of faking these screenshots. (His evidence is the app is open (?), not any apparent artifacts... whatever.) This post was edited by sodajerk on Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 01:43. |
| #6 By 7754 (24.245.76.135) at 6/19/2003 2:03:16 AM |
| There are artifacts--the song information oval at the top of the window sits on a square that is merely gray, not consistent with the rest of the brushed metal look. If that's what you mean by artifacts, though.... |
| #7 By 3339 (66.219.95.6) at 6/19/2003 2:12:15 AM |
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Well, yeah, bluvg, but if you photoshopped iTunes off a Mac and dropped a Win-looking data grid in the middle and plopped it on a Win screenshot -- why would you bother to create those artifacts? (when you could screenshot that area of the app flawlessly without any compositing)
To make it look like it was photoshopped? No, if it was photoshopped, the artifacts would appear at the boundaries between what you can cut from the Mac version and what you insert as the "Win version." If anything, the artifacts you point out lend credibility since they would appear to be the result of custom but poor GUI drawing in the "Alpha." Which is in fact what it is (bad drawing of a kludge of Apple's UI on Windows--not a real "Alpha"). So I guess I should have clarified with "photoshopped" or "compositing" artifacts or what not. Thought it was clear. The issue is moot. I can confirm the screenshots are real, but the app is not a real Apple alpha app. This post was edited by sodajerk on Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 02:34. |
| #8 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 6/19/2003 10:51:12 AM |
| Well, that's sort of what I was thinking--if anything, it would lend credibility, since the similarly-styled QuickTime for Windows suffers from some of the same types of inconsistencies in the interface. But I don't doubt you that it's not an Apple alpha--you're right, it doesn't fit with how they work. |
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