We knew we couldn’t release an app that didn’t have at least the vast majority of the same features. PH: It was definitely conscious, our main competitor at the time (and really still now) was Tweetie. Was it a concious decision on both of your parts to make it a feature packed client or did it start out more minimal and work its way up to being more complex? TNW: I know I’m not alone when I feel that Tweetbot seems to be a full toolbox of functionality. But enough about the past, can we talk about Rampart? PH: And sometimes I’ll say nope that’s too damned hard or impossibru. But yeah we both have our areas and pretty much stick to it. It’s nice to have a complimentary working relationship. I’ll throw out some ideas once in a while, he’ll laugh at most and agree with a few. PH: That’s pretty much all his idea, the look, how things work and feel, that’s almost always his ideas. TNW: So the aesthetic, and the ‘robot’ theme is Mark’s doing then? Or do you have a robotic obsession as well? I can’t design a straight line so I asked him for help and that’s where Weightbot was born. We were working on a project together and I decided I wanted to try to do an iPhone app. PH: We were both working for the Oakley web group at the time. And you and Mark had known each other for a while before this? Worked together? TNW: Haha, that’s one way to get into it. I was way too cheap to actually buy one of the devices new so I waited and only started after Mark sold me his old iPhone. PH: I actually didn’t get into it until around 6 months after the App Store was launched. TNW: So was developing for the iPhone something you knew you wanted to get into immediately as the App Store launched? ![]() ![]() A pretty natural lead in, If you know one its relatively easy to know the other. Soon after I got one I started coding and kept with it and the various twists and turns ever since. So I never did OS 9 stuff, maybe Mac guy isn’t the best way to put it but it’s what everyone knows. Love it at first sight and had to have one. ![]() Paul Haddad: I actually am a NeXT guy, been one since college.
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