Title
Grignon, Andrew oral history
Catalog Number
102740146
Type
Moving image
Description
Andy Grignon had been a Macintosh and Newton fan in college when he landed an internship in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group to work on QuickTime Conferencing, a technology that grew into QuickTime Streaming. Grignon later joined the internet startup @Home, until it was acquired by Excite. From there, Grignon joined Pixo, a startup that was making a mobile operating system for pagers and cell phones, until it was contracted by Apple to produce the OS for the original iPod. Grignon decided to rejoin Apple, and worked on the first version of the iChat messaging application on Mac OS X, where he began to take part in user experience demos to Steve Jobs. Grignon then developed the Dashboard, a feature of Mac OS X in which little widgets could be written in JavaScript and would live in a separate desktop-like area. From there, Grignon moved to Tony Fadell’s iPod hardware division, where he became involved in developing the original iPhone. After completing work on the original iPhone, Grignon followed Jon Rubinstein to Palm and lead the team that created WebOS for the Palm Pre smartphone.
Date
2017-04-18
Participants
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Grignon, Andrew, Interviewee
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Hsu, Hansen, Interviewer
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Weber, Marc, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Duration
03:09:03
Format
MOV
Category
Oral history
Collection Title
CHM Oral History Collection
Credit
Computer History Museum
