My first Mac was a Macintosh Performa 5215CD, and even as a kid I played around with pro-level software like Adobe Photoshop 4 and REALbasic. I’m in my 30s, and I’ve been an Apple fan since I was a kid. I’m Alex Robb, I live in Chicago, and I work for a tech company as an analyst. Tell us about yourself: Who are you, and what do you do?
That’s my kind of project, so I reached out to the developer, Alex Robb, about how (and why!) he came up with his Google News reader, Newsstand. I saw an interesting post on Reddit this week: someone had developed an RSS reader for Mac OS 9.