
367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
The Talk Show With John Gruber
What I Didn't Know About Indie Developers
I didn't know there were windows, of course, windows indie developers. It never even I don't even know anybody who thought, Hey, should we write something for a phone because you know, there was no way to write. Even if you did it, you weren't going to make something that was actually joyful or joyous or well designed. You couldn't distribute it to anybody because everything you had to go through the phone company. Right. As Steve Jobs famous called them the orifices, but you it was just bureaucratic like Terry Gilliam's Brazil nightmare of the and they just they didn't see a problem with it.
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