[mikeryan]

Icons currently on my iphone which I would confuse with Sparrow

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As much as the author would like Cinematic to be a utility its not. Sparrow is used every day it deserves to have a spot on the app launcher.

This seems like a product owner trying to project his own ideal concept of his app "Like Sparrow, I hope that Cinematic will become a utility for my users,"

No its not, you're answering the wrong question if you're asking "What do I want my Icon to convey", instead of "What does my Icon Do? How can I make that better?" Because the answer should be "Make it easy for my users to find and launch my app". Solve that problem by making a distinct icon that can be easily found when needed. Fandango's icon is perfect its the only one I have with a white field. When I want to find movie times, I can always find it easily even though it lives in a folder.

[mmuro]

Did you seriously just point out all of the blue icons you could find? Regardless of the fact that they would seriously be confused with Sparrow's icon?

[mikeryan]

No I actually skipped a bunch, Rdio, Skype, Get Glue, Facebook, Stocks, Weather, Chase

I went with ones in the similar color palette with a white icon

[mortenjorck]

This seems like a product owner trying to project his own ideal concept of his app "Like Sparrow, I hope that Cinematic will become a utility for my users,"

Exactly. Designing an icon in the vocabulary of the core communications apps on the iPhone is inviting yourself to a party the user may or may not want you at. Sparrow has obviously earned this; I doubt Cinematic has.