Linked List: April 26, 2013

Friday, 26 April 2013

Beautiful Text on iOS 

Great tag-team session by Chris Clark and James Dempsey from the Renaissance conference. Clark covers an overview of good type design; Dempsey gets into the nitty gritty of getting the best possible type rendering out of iOS 6.

Dell’s Pitch for Tablets 

Good luck with that.

Update: Julian Lepinski tears this white paper to shreds.

Macminicolo Forever Promo 

My thanks to Macminicolo for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Mac Minis make great servers, and Macminicolo is a high-end data center dedicated to hosting them. There are a bunch of good reasons to host a Mini server with them, but here’s just one: the developers of Day One — a great journaling app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — are using a hosted Mac Mini as a development build server.

Macminicolo’s “Forever Promo” is a special offer for DF readers, with a low rate, no contract, and inexpensive rental options.

Eric Schmidt Says Talking to Glass Can Be Weird, Inappropriate 

Aaron Pressman, Reuters:

Talking out loud to control the Google Glasses via voice recognition is “the weirdest thing,” Schmidt said in a talk on Thursday at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

People will have to develop new etiquette to deal with such products that can record video surreptitiously and bring up information that only the wearer can see, Schmidt said.

“There are obviously places where Google Glasses are inappropriate,” he said.

Weird and inappropriate. Perfect product for Google.

Smartphone Platform Loyalty 

John Paczkowski, on a report by Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe:

So, Android’s seemingly inexorable ascension over the iPhone? Not quite so inexorable anymore. Apple’s smartphone continues to gain share over devices running Google’s mobile OS in the U.S.; so much so that, according to the Yankee Group, iPhone ownership in the U.S. will exceed Android ownership by 2015. The reason: Platform loyalty.

Bold projection.