Last week’s Icon Battle was a bit of a ho-hum affair between TurboTax and TaxCut 2006. Not really too much to get excited about there, so at the risk of starting a raging flame war and crashing our servers, we are caving into requests to let the big boys go at it in this week’s Icon Battle. Without further ado, the battle many of you have been waiting for - Vista vs. OS X Leopard.
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Which icon is worse?
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Please remember, Icon Battle is a pure sporting event to test the resolve of the icon alone. The battle is not about the software behind the icons. You are choosing the worst icon of the two, please try to keep your vitriolic fanaticism for your favorite operating system out of it. Yeah, right.
Chet wrote,
It’s the battle between the four color, wavy flag icon from the days of flying toaster yore AND the sleek and sexy, mysterious, straight from the pages of a Victoria’s Secret catalog Mac icon. I wonder which one will win.
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dnm wrote,
Those are logos not icons, imbecile
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techietim wrote,
It’s a bit unfair compairing a monochrome icon with a colourful one. Needless to say that Apple made sexy the glassy look that Microsoft are now taking on-board. Apple are now moving on to better things.
Can someone please post a colour osx icon?
Quote | Link | April 13th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Tommy wrote,
@dnm, thanks for pointing that out. Icon Battle started with just plain “Icons” but many people asked to start branching out to bigger and better things, Debian vs. Ubuntu, Windows vs. OS X.
At BuzzDroid, we try to be accomodating imbeciles.
It didn’t sound right to switch the name to “Logo Battle”, so we kept the name and are using our artistic license to stretch the definition of an icon, which, being an imbecile, I consider to be the more common meaning of “symbol“.
Quote | Link | April 13th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Chet wrote,
techietim,
I can’t remember a colored icon, it seems like the basic “X” icon has always been black (and white). I think I remember Panther, or Jaguar, or Tiger having a colored skin-print background (although I’m not 100% sure) behind the black X, but I think the Leopard icon has only been in greyscale.
I might be hazy on this, though.
Quote | Link | April 13th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Tommy wrote,
@techietim, we call it like we see it, and we didn’t find any colored icons or logos for OS X Leopard.
Like Chet, said, OS X has been pretty much greyscale, although I did once see an OS X logo with a light blue “X” against a white background. That was way uglier than the caveman print Apple is using now.
Quote | Link | April 13th, 2007 at 10:50 am