The Real Story of Audion

mijkal writes "Panic's Audion music software has been retired and made freely available. The developer has a nice write up on his experiences with Audion in relation to early-MP3 days, failed AOL deals, and the could-have-been iTunes app. It's an inspiring read on the history of a shareware developer and his adventures thus far."

Comments

Re:Breath of fresh air

[lukewarmfusion]

Most of the Apple/Mac developers I know have other jobs. They do it in their spare time, with no hope of making a living out of it. I'm sure that comes from the smaller market share -> less potential for revenue -> less demand for developers.

It's kind of sad... I'm not a huge Mac fan, but I watched my non-programmer co-worker write an Applescript to do some stuff that's not nearly as easy in Windows.

obligatory offtopic logo comment

[sucati]

their logo bears a striking resemblence to Vignette's

Re:I need to change my preferences

[Rich Klein]

Oh. My preferences aren't to blame; they don't prevent any stories from showing up in my RSS aggregator, but work fine when I call up slashdot.org in my browser.

Re:Good business practice.

[rice_burners_suck]

Fuck yeah, when who croaked killed at least 10,000 perfectly innocent people, and then got a No-bell Peace Prize. I wish I could go to Egypt right now so I could piss on that garbage's grave. He was not a person. He was garbage.