Episode 5 - Brent Simmons, Creator of NetNewsWire
Brent Simmons is the creator of NetNewsWire for the iPhone and Mac. Time Magazine named NetNewsWire one of the top-10 iPhone apps.
In this interview, Brent talks about adapting a desktop app’s UI for iPhone, has advice for indies making a living selling iPhone apps, describes how he successfully split MarsEdit from NetNewsWire, gives some examples of cool iPhone apps, talks about his “anti-packrat” compulsion, and chats about the complexity of syncing iPhone and desktop apps.