Linked List: September 14, 2013

Saturday, 14 September 2013

Adobe Typekit 

My thanks to Adobe for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Typekit. Typekit makes it easy to use great fonts on your website, across all modern web browsers and mobile devices. With a Typekit account, you have access to thousands of beautiful fonts from the world’s best foundries and independent type designers. Great fonts, great software.

Simple Cameras 

Mike Johnston:

But camera manufacturers don’t seem constitutionally capable of making a super-simple camera. They must be deeply convinced that the complexity of the feature set (which certainly does appeal to a lot of us) is an indivisible part of how they add value to their product, and the temptation to add more and more is something they can’t forswear even for one product. I mean, with hundreds of cameras on the market, wouldn’t you think they could make one that was super-simple, just for that segment of the population that wants it? And market it that way. You’d think. But no.

I think it’s one of the “stealth reasons” why cellphones are encroaching on the camera market so rapidly. Not the only reason, not the main reason, but a reason. (I also think that as cameraphones gain an ever-enlarging share of the camera market, the cameras in them will inexorably get more complicated.)

Bingo.

We Have a Winner for the Dumbest Thing Written About Apple This Week 

Fraser P. Seitel, writing for Fortune:

Jobs famously presented Apple products, always dressed in jeans and a black turtleneck sweater. Cook presents Apple products in jeans and a black open-collar shirt; evidently believing that switching the shirt for the turtleneck suggests a break with the past.

It doesn’t.

Why not take a risk and purchase a blue blazer! Anything to break the deleterious chokehold of the Steve Jobs’ legacy.

The whole piece, from top to bottom, is jacktastic, but the above advice truly takes the cake.