Linked List: July 18, 2014

Friday, 18 July 2014

DF RSS Feed Sponsorship Openings 

Speaking of DF RSS feed sponsors, the next few weeks are open on the schedule. Get in touch if you have a cool product or service you want to promote to DF’s discerning audience.

Update, Sunday evening: This coming week is still open. If you can pull the trigger quickly, let’s make a deal.

Faded — Simply Beautiful Mobile Photography 

My thanks to Vintage Noir for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Faded, their excellent all-in-one photo app for the iPhone. Faded includes gorgeous film-inspired effects and some of the most powerful iPhone editing tools currently available. Easy enough for amateurs, with simple but truly beautiful one-tap filters; powerful enough for serious photographers with detailed editing controls.

I know there’s a ton of photo apps for the iPhone, but Faded really does stand out. It’s been featured by Apple on the App Store as a “Best New App”, and Dan Rubin listed it in his list of ten best iPhone photo apps for The Guardian a few weeks ago.

Check out their website to see it in action, and download the app for just $0.99 — one buck! — on the App Store.

‘Looks by Dr. Dre’ 

Khoi Vinh:

If you take a look at Beats’ headphones product catalog, it looks a lot closer to, say, the Nixon watches catalog than any catalog of technology products. Beats’ headphones, like Nixon’s watches, are oriented such that the primary selection criteria are looks and style; you’ve got to wade through those before you decide which model you want. By contrast, on Apple’s site, you’ve got to choose your model before you can choose your style — or, put another way, you choose what you want it do, first, and then you get to choose what you want it to look like.

These differences reflect fundamentally distinct ways of thinking about products, or more importantly, fundamentally distinct ways of thinking about what customers want.