I was hoping Apple would realize how unfit and *gasp* ugly the FaceTime icon is. Alas, the app is out of beta and that just didn’t happen. The Cupertino company that we all love is giving us one more reason to worry about the recent directions of its UI design.

Not only does OSX comes with one of the best icons around, but Apple made it incredibly easy to change default icons compared to other operating systems.
Here are some of the most popular methods to achieve that.

I care about icons. I really do. Mac third party developers also care about icons. The latter explains why they go as far as designing new icons from scratch for every major update, while the latter explains why I would go as far as writing about it.

While everyone is trying to come up with iTunes replacement icons, I spent some time making this timeline with the various icon iterations since 2001.

Yesterday Steve unveiled a new iTunes with social networking capabilities and a brand new logo. Like many of you, I am not sure whether Apple is going the right direction with this redesign.