There has been a lot of back and forth about the drastic changes in iTunes 10. The icon (iCon) is completely new, the normal close, minimize, maximize buttons are vertical rather than horizontal, the library icons are grey, etc.
A lot of people are up in arms about one or more of these things. You can see opinions over on the Apple Blog. A lot of people are so upset that instructions on how to use Terminal to fix these things are showing up everywhere.
I am only bothered by two things about it (probably because I am not using Ping, so I’m not being spammed):
1. The library icons don’t gain color when selected. This seems like a nice Apple-y touch that was not added. I’d like to see that.
2. The new icon has almost no resemblance to the old one. When I’m trying to tab through my open applications to get to iTunes, I now have to regularly make two or three passes before I find it. But I’ll get used to it.
I’m not a pundit, so my opinions don’t actually matter to the greater internet community, but I am already tired of hearing complaints about the vertical buttons and how to change the icon. If there is one thing that I’ve learned, time and again, it is that in the end the fans will vote Apple right. Apple has taken some extreme risks (losing the floppy drive, for instance), and those risks could be seen now as visionary. Every time a new product comes out, people get the internet roiling with complaints over little, and sometimes big, perceived problems. Grousing and griping won’t matter, because eventually Jobs gets everyone to drink the Kool-Aid (with the obvious exceptions being the hockeypuck mouse and the buttonless shuffle).