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With PDFpen we started by helping users add text and images to PDFs, such that they could sign and return forms and contracts. We figured we could fit somewhere between ‘free and very limited’ and ‘crazy expensive and can do everything, only a bit of which you need.’
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Looking at the PDF editor options showed a huge gap between Apple’s Preview, which was read-only at that time, and Adobe Acrobat, which was far too much for an everyday user. If the era of fax and PageSender is over, what’s next? We figured PDFs sent via email would replace faxing. PDFpen is another well-known app that y’all build. Now, we’re able to make basic TextExpander expansion available in any app.Ĥ. The real game-changer on iOS was when Apple introduced custom keyboards in iOS 8. Initially, it could only expand snippets in the Notes section of the TextExpander app. It wasn’t entirely clear whether or not they were joking, so we built TextExpander for iPhone, which debuted on August 26, 2009. At our Smile WWDC party, Dave and Roustem from AgileBits, makers of 1Password, told us that if we did not produce TextExpander for iPhone, they would. It’s a case of, ‘I really need this app for my life, other people must also’ combined with ‘If I make it, I can ensure it will always work for me.’Īs for iOS, at WWDC in 2009, Apple announced support for cut/copy/paste in iOS 3. Smile shipped TextExpander 1.3 on May 23, 2006, and the post you cite does a good job telling the story. We acquired Textpander from Peter Maurer, now of Many Tricks.
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Today, that app is one reason Smile is well known to Mac and iOS users, but how did it come into the fold? Back in 2006, Smile acquired what would become TextExpander.
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Let’s call these evidence of the “change or die” mantra of software development.ģ. It became obsolete when OS X added an HTML color picker. We retired HTMLColorPicker X in March 2005. Apple’s laptops hadn’t shipped with internal modems for years. We retired PageSender in 2010, eight years after it first shipped. Were they the first two products? What ended up happening with those apps? The Wayback Machine has an early version of the homepage (which looks amazing, by the way), but the page shows just two apps: PageSender and HTMLColorPickerX. DiscLabel won best of show, which was very exciting. We shipped DiscLabel 1.0 at the last Macworld New York in July 2003. We hit it off, I had an idea for a product, he had the artistic know how, and together we produced DiscLabel, our disc labeling app. My co-founder Philip introduced himself to me at Macworld San Francisco 2003, where I was exhibiting PageSender, my faxing software. Tell me a little bit about how Smile got started. To mark the occasion, I spoke with co-founder Greg Scown about the company’s history, present and future.ġ.
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Smile, makers of tools like PDFpen and TextExpander.
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