I also have a few generations of iPods and decades of Apple posters and pamphlets. I have six classic Macs: a PowerBook G3 PDQ, a PowerBook G3 Pismo (which I use the most), an iMac G4, a PowerMac G4 Cube, a 12″ PowerBook G4, and a Mac Mini G4. I hadn’t played with those apps in decades, but quarantine and shelter in place allowed me to pick up this hobby again.ĭeveloping for Mac OS is (a) amazing and (b) anochronistic! How much of a classic Mac user are you?ĭeveloping for Mac OS 9 was a great experience, especially using an app like REALbasic, which is what I used to develop Newsstand. My first Mac was a Macintosh Performa 5215CD, and even as a kid I played around with pro-level software like Adobe Photoshop 4 and REALbasic. I’m in my 30s, and I’ve been an Apple fan since I was a kid. I’m Alex Robb, I live in Chicago, and I work for a tech company as an analyst. Tell us about yourself: Who are you, and what do you do? That’s my kind of project, so I reached out to the developer, Alex Robb, about how (and why!) he came up with his Google News reader, Newsstand. I saw an interesting post on Reddit this week: someone had developed an RSS reader for Mac OS 9.
