Alex Kretzschmar
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Podcast Appearances
Oh, I guess 2007 was the first one.
So... Yeah.
I was there when the iPhone 4 launched.
I remember we had a... Because it wasn't available in many...
I think so.
Really?
But I remember it wasn't available in many countries at that point.
So what we ended up happening was, um, we get a bunch of what we called resellers queuing up outside the store first thing in the morning, uh,
with thousands of pounds in cash in their pockets, buying as many iPhones as we could sell them to ship them off to Dubai or Abu Dhabi or just, you know, it was all Arabic customers that we had purchasing these things for resale.
It was kind of crazy, actually.
And that was back in London?
Yeah, well, Manchester, but yeah.
I say London to Manchester like it's a big deal, but it's probably no further than Houston to Dallas in reality.
So like four or five hours kind of thing?
Yeah, it's pretty close really.
Yeah, it was, it was my personal blog and then morphed into something else.
A fun story with that one.
Plex actually approached us back in the day to help them write that Docker container.
So technically, you're just running a fork of the Linux server container, technically speaking.
Technically, okay.