While CTO at Pandora, Tom Conrad Had Them Building Their iPhone App Before the iPhone SDK Was Released

from blog Daring Fireball, | ↗ original
Speaking of new (“interim”) Sonos CEO Tom Conrad and Scott Forstall, here’s an interesting anecdote from Tyler Hall’s terrific piece for Motherboard in 2021, “How Pandora Won Its Royalty Battle but Lost the War to Spotify”: After pushback on only allowing web apps for the iPhone, Steve Jobs announced that native apps would be coming to the...