"In the mid-‘80s, a friend convinced Williamson to start a company
writing software for the Commodore Amiga, an early PC. “We wrote a
program called Marauder, which was a program to make archival backups of
copy-protected disks.” He laughs. “That’s kind of the diplomatic way of
describing the program.” Basically, they created a tool that allowed
users to pirate software. “So we had a little bit of a recurring revenue
stream,” he says slyly.
In 1985, Steve Jobs’s post-Apple company, NeXT, was still a small
operation, and hungry for good engineers. There, Williamson met with two
NeXT officers and one Steve Jobs. He showed them the work that he’d done
on the Amiga, and they hired him on the spot. The young programmer would
go on to spend the next quarter of a century in Jobs’s— and the NeXT
team’s— orbit, working on the software that would become integral to the
iPhone."
This excerpt is from a larger excerpt which can be found at
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt
The original book is:
/"THE ONE DEVICE: The Secret History of the IPhone by Brian Merchant.
Copyright © 2017 by Brian Merchant."/
Interesting reading*.*
Ernie
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