This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. (Check out the OmniFocus 2 public beta!)
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John Chaffee is a co-founder of BusyMac which makes the awesome BusyCal. John talks about being a Mac developer in the ’90s, what it was like at Now Software, and how he got tired of mobile and came back to the Mac.
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This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in JavaScript in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Good stuff.
Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly):
BusyMac
BusyCal
Now Software
Extensis
Farallon
SplashData
PhoneNet connectors
AppleTalk
Berkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG)
Berkeley, CA
QA
A/UX
Desktop publishing
Mac iici
SCSI
Santa Barbara
Mac Store
Pagemaker
Mac 512
VIP Technologies
Atari ST
Apple IIgs
Lotus 1-2-3
Taxes
Mac SE/30
Portland
Bay Area
San Jose
System 7
1991
Now Utilities
Dave Riggle
Claris
MacWrite
Filemaker Pro
Bento
1990
Macworld Expo
Floppy disks
iCal
Now Up-to-Date
Macworld Expo Boston
Compuserve
Windows
Altura Mac2Win
Qualcomm
Osborne Effect
Dotcom Bubble
Aldus Fetch
Quark
MacMall
OnOne Software
1999
Adobe InDesign
OpenDoc
Mac OS X
Carbon
AppKit
NetNewsWire
Office Space
Getty Images
PhotoDisx
2001
Palm PDA
Handspring Visor
PalmGear
Handango
SplashPhoto
SplashMoney
SplashID
SplashShopper
SplashWallet
Windows Mobile
Symbian
Android
SplashBlog
Instagram
2006
SixApart
Movable Type
2007
Mac App Store
BusyCal, LLC
Google
WWDC
RSS
Safari/RSS
Google (Partly) Shuts Down CalDAV
MobileMe
SyncServices
iCloud
Sandboxing
JCPenney’s
Apple Pulls out of Macworld
Twitter
AirPlay
Apple TV
Type A Personality
Domain Name System
BusySync
HotSync
iCloud Core Data Syncing
iCloud Key/Value Storage
ActiveSync
ExchangeWebService
Blackberry
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