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You could tell when an app succeeded – it scrolled ‘like butter.’ Most did not. But that was the fun of it – app writers had to do hardcore performance work for the first time in years. Much of my work went into making the app fast – which was hard with early iPhones. But in 2008, I concentrated on keeping it as simple as possible. Things are different these days – iOS apps are expected to have close to parity with a desktop version, and iOS-specific features too. How did the iPhone interface impact on the app’s design? No-one expected more in those days – a simple RSS reader in your pocket was already a miracle. Remember with those early iPhones how small the screens were, and how slow they were.īut you could still catch up on all your news in NetNewsWire, and your feed would sync with other readers. That kind of thing wasn’t unusual back then. It synced with NewsGator – you couldn’t even add news feeds on the iPhone. What was your approach to the original iPhone app?

And so NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPhone shipped on day one of the iPhone App Store.

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It was a brilliant new frontier with an almost magic UI – and the App Store looked like it might be a gold rush.įew Mac developers were making much money, and the opportunity to apply our skills to this new platform with – we hoped – a much larger customer base was hardly a thing to think about. When the iPhone came out, pretty much every Mac developer I knew started writing iOS apps. Why did you decide to create NetNewsWire for iPhone? We’ve already given those platforms way too much power, and you can see the terrible effects that’s had. They can and should moderate their own platforms, but we can’t let them own our civil discourse, because they will dictate what is and is not out-of-bounds. Their interests are their own, not about a just and prosperous society. Social media billionaires don’t want to defend any of this. Here’s the kind of thing I worry about: if Elon Musk successfully buys Twitter and decides to ban Black Lives Matter activism from the network, what would happen then? We need to care for the open web – because publishing the truth matters.

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But the rise of Facebook and Twitter gave me another reason to care: it’s about the open web, which is more valuable than any social network – and the closest thing we have to a guarantee of free speech. It was a hit – and it quickly became clear NetNewsWire was more than a way for me to learn modern Mac app development – it was a thing I did.

It was the first on any platform to use now-familiar three-pane organization: feeds/folders timeline article. NetNewsWire Lite 1.0 (free) shipped in late 2002 NetNewsWire 1.0 (paid) shipped in early 2003. So after leaving UserLand in early 2002, my plan was to write an RSS reader that would be beautiful and native – nothing like Radio UserLand.

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There were no folders and tags – it was more like Twitter.Īt the same time, developers like me were excited about how Mac OS X made writing apps easier and way more fun – and the new interface was the most beautiful I’d ever seen. You’d click a link to visit the original article. It displayed a river of news – excerpts in reverse chronological order. (There weren’t any RSS readers like NetNewsWire back then.) Instead, Radio UserLand was a Mac app and a mini web server that ran on your machine. It wasn’t an RSS reader like NetNewsWire. Get all the headlines and history on NetNewsWire as we chat to the app’s creator, Brent Simmons.īrent: While working at UserLand Software, I got hooked on our RSS reader app, Radio UserLand.

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