I thought it was such a great app and it added so many features to iChat, which I used at the time. I met Kent in 2006 and I met him because of Chax. “Chax had actually come out a while ago, back in 2005. It is very important in Flexibits’s history and highlights their working relationship and why they decided to come together as Flexibits. Speaking of things in the past, Chax for iChat on Mac was a huge deal when it launched and was one of the first few projects that Michael and Kent worked on together. Fate works in surprising and delightful ways sometimes.” Well, obviously the odds are 365 to 1, but, yeah, we were incorporated on the same date Apple was incorporated. When it arrived, the official date seemed very familiar to me and I remember Kent being like, “what are the odds?!”. I remember when we were waiting for our incorporation paperwork. So, 34 years prior to Flexibits, Apple was incorporated. It was just fate,) is that Apple was incorporated on January 3rd, 1977. A very serendipitous story (and we truly had no say in this. “Kent and I had been discussing starting a company for a while and we finally launched Flexibits in 2010, but we weren’t officially incorporated until January 3rd, 2011. He also talks about how they got incorporated on a very interesting date. Michael tells us how he had been friends with Kent and started working together much before Flexibits was a thing. Let’s go back a few years to when Flexibits was founded. Travelling and app markets outside the US.Apple Design Award for Your Own Hard Work.Natural Language Parsing in Fantastical.There’s a handy Index below for you to jump into topics of your choice if you want. This interview was conducted little over a month ago and is the longest article we’ve published here on Beautiful Pixels. ![]() We spoke to Michael Simmons of Flexibits at length about calendar apps, Apple as a company and its influence, UI Design, HockeyApp, and more. We’re relaunching ‘ The Dialogue’ with a new long form feature, a first of many lined up for this year on Beautiful Pixels. The Dialogue is something we started almost two years, but unfortunately have been very inconsistent with it. In Dialogue, Featured The Dialogue: Michael Simmons
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