With Andy Grignon, Veteran Software Developer at Apple and part of the rag tag group that developed the first iPhone
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Andy Grignon has made a career out of creating and shipping highly visible consumer products. He started out at Apple in the Advanced Technology Group developing QuickTime Conferencing and QuickTime Streaming technologies. A couple small companies later, he was back at Apple building iChat AV and the iSight camera.
He went on to write Dashboard for MacOS, prior to becoming part of the small, ragtag group charged with creating iPhone. After shipping iPhone 1.0, he left for Palm to co-invent webOS. As VP of Applications and Platforms, he oversaw the release of 13 versions of webOS.
Andy discusses the excitement, chaos and madness of developing the iPhone under Steve Jobs, the new era of computing in the 1980s and the technological aspects of National Geographic’s new documentary – The 2000s: A New Reality – a two-night miniseries event that revisits key events of the decade through first-person interviews with the unexpected game changers, news makers, world leaders and entertainers who left their marks on history.
