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Alex Kretzschmar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
808 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Oh, I guess 2007 was the first one.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I was there when the iPhone 4 launched.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I remember we had a... Because it wasn't available in many...

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But I remember it wasn't available in many countries at that point.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

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,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

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.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It was kind of crazy, actually.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And that was back in London?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, well, Manchester, but yeah.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I say London to Manchester like it's a big deal, but it's probably no further than Houston to Dallas in reality.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So like four or five hours kind of thing?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, it's pretty close really.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, it was, it was my personal blog and then morphed into something else.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

A fun story with that one.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Plex actually approached us back in the day to help them write that Docker container.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So technically, you're just running a fork of the Linux server container, technically speaking.