Linked List: May 28, 2013

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Tim Cook at All Things D, on Why Apple Hasn’t Made a Range of iPhones 

See also this one, where he talks about market share.

Briefs 

Longtime readers should remember Briefs, which creator Rob Rhyne unveiled back at the C4[3] conference in 2009. It was Rhyne’s vision for a modern, simple, prototyping/UI mockup tool for mobile app designers, and it caught my eye immediately.

And then it entered App Store limbo.

It took a few years and some significant rethinking of the concept, but as of a few weeks ago, Briefs is out. I love this story, not just because Briefs is a terrific app (actually, a few apps — a viewer for iOS, and a developer tool for the Mac), but because this app ever seeing the light of day was the result of such dogged determination. Many people would have given up at some point. Rhyne did not.

SummerFest 2013: Artisanal Software for Writers 

I like this. No gimmicks, no hoops, no bundles. Just a bunch of great Mac apps with discounts ranging from 20-50 percent, sold directly by the developers.

The Sweethome 

New site from the team behind The Wirecutter: “a list of great stuff and supplies for your house or apartment.” The first article I clicked was “The Best Nail Clippers for Home Grooming”; their recommendation: Tweezerman. Funny enough, I have a pair of Tweezerman nail clippers that I bought in a hotel coffee shop a few years ago, and indeed, they’re the finest nail clippers I’ve owned. I also concur with their recommendation for an ice cube tray.