Comment by scarface74
3 years ago
> This could definitely never happen today, for so many reasons. Which is a bit sad honestly.
In 1994, the internet wasn’t ubiquitous. Today they could have released it free on the App Store for Mac and iOS or for Mac just throw it on a web page.
It would have been harder to get noticed though.
True. And it would be more likely that the authors would be hoping/planning on making a lot of money from the app in the app store.
There is something very romantic (I'm not sure the significance beyond this) about the story of a rag tag bunch of people at Apple (most of whom were actually on Apple payroll, "stealing" their time) coming together for a passion project, not with get rich dreams. And somehow pulling it off.