PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast

Episode 34 of the PodLeaders show - 33 mins 23 secs

My guest on Podleaders today is Bruce Horn. Bruce is the founder of Ingenuity Software but is probably better known as the inventor of the Finder - the file manager on the Mac.

Here are all the questions I asked Bruce along with their times during the interview:

Can you start us off with a bit of your background Bruce. You worked in Xerox PARC before joining Apple, is that right? - 0:41

Pardon my ignorance but what is Smalltalk? - 2:49

How old were you when you started working in PARC? - 6:13

You were working with the Learning Research Group at PARC. What made you decide to leave and join Apple? - 07:21

As part of the Mac group you were fundamental in the development of the Resource Manager and the Finder, weren’t you? - 9:40

The Finder was very innovative too because most computers were command line at the time, whereas the Finder was GUI based… - 11:47

You were also involved in the Newton project, weren’t you? 13:24

Audience questions:

Donagh Kiernan:
Is the DogCow dead? - 15:21

Also how does Bruce feel about Mac using Intel processors and PC software (XP) on the Mac? - 15:59

Dave Murphy (from Computer Science dept, UCC)
What changes to the Finder does Apple need to make (if any) to keep the Mac OS X ‘look-and-feel’ ahead of VISTA? - 17:42

Niall Kennedy
Andy Hertzfeld’s company Eazel which was developing the Nautilus interface failed. Is there room for independent companies to develop file manager on top of open platforms? - 19:44

Twenty Major
Can you ask him if he thought his career has been all downhill since ‘That’s just the way it is’ and what are The Range doing these days? - 21:56

My questions again:

Do you still use a Mac? - 25:07

What do you make of OS X and the move to Unix? - 26:50

Finally Bruce, you are working on something called iFile now. Can you tell us what that is?

Do you have a business model for iFile? Will it be free, open source, shareware, commercial? - 31:40

Download the entire interview here
(17.9mb mp3).