Apple Thoughts: QuickTime Logo Updated

"Quicktime, Apple's prevalent media technology, is seeing its latest incarnation within a den of Snow Leopards, announced this last Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. As with almost every updated release of the Quicktime, a new icon emerges - in this case it is also accompanied by the addition of an X at the end of the name, probably acknowledging that it will be some time before the blue Q is completely superseded by the new one. In a way, this iteration of the Q-clock is the one that was always meant to be. Finally the count will reach 20 seconds and the arm will tick its way into formal harmony with the Q descender. I'm sure many of us have always wondered why this hadn't happened at the outset."

I remember that very first logo. It stared at me blankly for many weeks as I tried to get Myst working on my 486-DX4 100. I hated Quicktime on Windows back then. Now, I tolerate it. Frankly, it's much better on the Mac, but that's to be expected; Office and MSN Messenger are just a short step away from unbearable on the Mac!

Incidentally, I'm not a huge fan of the new logo. It's a bit generic for my tastes.