Linked List: January 10, 2015

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Desk 

My thanks once again to Desk for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Desk is a beautiful, functional blogging app for the Mac, named by Apple as one of the “Best Apps of 2014” in the App Store. Desk’s focus is simple: it’s about writing.

If you’ve been thinking about starting a new blog or rejuvenating your existing one, John Saddington, Desk’s developer, is offering a free 10-day online workshop. It’s totally free, no strings attached.

Ashley Nelson-Hornstein on Apple Software Quality 

Ashley Nelson-Hornstein (currently an iOS engineer at Dropbox, formerly at Apple):

I forgave iOS 7 because I understood the incredible amount of work accomplished to pivot the platform in just six months. So for me, iOS 8 is my first real opportunity to be concerned about the state of the platform, and not evidence of a pattern of issues. I’ll be justifiably concerned and worried if the same software quality issues are being discussed in 10.11 and iOS 9. Until then, I’m willing to give Apple the time necessary to let their plans propagate.

A reassuring footnote, as well.

Apple, the Camera Company 

Stats from Flickr for 2014: the top four camera phones are all iPhones, and among all camera makers, Apple is now second only to Canon. I expect Apple to overtake Canon by 2016, if not this year.