The second was when NetNewsWire 2.0 shipped: we included a built-in tabbed browser. It was a huge hit for the time, way surpassing my expectations.
NETNEWSWIRE BROWSER MOBILE FOR MAC OS
The first was its very existence - the first desktop app RSS reader for Mac OS X. NetNewsWire has gone through several big changes in its seven-year lifetime. Anything you can talk about that will build some more excitement? I see on Inessential that version 4.0 of NNW is coming up. It isn't a replacement, but it is becoming my new "first click". I am finding for the first time I am using Tweetie/Tweetdeck/Twitterific as much as NNW to get a my favorite site feeds. I am interested in what you are doing with NNW. And so there are lots of people glad we made the change. For the year-and-a-half before switching to Google Reader, the biggest feature request *by far* was that we switch over to Google Reader syncing. It's funny - the pissed-off people always speak up, and happy people usually happily keep quiet. Were you surprised? What went into that decision? But it will be just one piece of code.Īlthough many customers were vocal opponents of your decision to go to Google Reader as an online reader/sync solution, I think it turned out pretty well. For instance, soon I'm hoping to get posting to Facebook working in TapLynx and NetNewsWire for iPhone. The situation is such that I couldn't really say where I spend most of my time. I'm less and less involved with directly creating apps for other people. Often I'm working on two or three at the same time when I'm working on a given piece of code. TapLynx is a framework for people who want to make iPhone apps like the All Things Digital app.Īll three products are closely related, of course: they share code, and they're all feed readers. I have three products: NetNewsWire for Mac, NetNewsWire for iPhone, and TapLynx. Is that where you spend most of your time now? Or does NNW keep you busy? I've noticed you've done a few high profile apps - like AllThingsD. But it's many orders of magnitude beyond that. So I tend to think of it as relatively intimate: me and 100 friends. I kind of have to forget about how popular it is most of the time or I'd be paralyzed knowing that I can't possibly please that many people. How many copies of NNW v3 are out there (if you don't mind me asking)? It is one of the first things I put on a new Mac and I wonder how many other people use it as a default application? The 1.0 of NetNewsWire Lite was in late 2002 You got it - NetNewsWire 1.0 was in early 2003.
NETNEWSWIRE BROWSER MOBILE SOFTWARE
First thing: I've been a huge fan of your software for as long as I can remember (I think it went 1.0 in 2003?) Thanks for taking time away of your busy development work to chat. I thought it would be interesting to talk to Brent Simmons, the developer behind NetNewsWire, about the recent changes in the application, how he plans on integrating social services like Twitter and where development is heading.
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