What a difference 5 years makes

It was just over 5 years ago when as a College Senior I was in California visiting my sister. I was reading in the newspaper about this so called macworld event. Since I did not know much about macs I decided to go. It was pretty overwhelming seeing all the cool new sunflower iMacs.  So I decided to go to the balcony and get a better perspective of things. While I was up their, two men were approaching the same area I was. One was in  jeans and a black turtle neck shirt( if my memory serves me right). As they got closer, it was apparent they were coming to the balcony to get the same view I was getting. It became clear that one of them was Steve Jobs.  I stupidly ignored the other guy, and proceeded to be awestruck of being in the presence of Steve Jobs. Say what you want, the man has the “Presence”. I proceeded to shake his hand and if I recall I did not let go cause well, I was in awe. By the way the other guy I was ignoring happened to be Jonathan Ives.

Now here I am today, being a nasty little mosquito in Mr. Jobs’s plan to make a bazillion dollars off ringtones and of course they have apparently tried to squash us with the change to the syncing method of iTunes, thus causing minor problems for iPhoneRingToneMaker.

Never in my wildest dreams when I met him face to face would I think the day would come where I would be issuing a press release touting how my product is better than his.
What many don’t realize is that the ringtone business is a billion dollar one. So don’t let Steve Jobs’s casual demonstration of Apple’s ringtone offering fool you. The man knows big money when he sees it.
So to think just like yesterday I was in awe and today am a disruptor of the multimillion dollar ringtone scheme of Mr. Jobs is kind of mind blowing.

Note: while I conceived and spearheaded iPhoneRingToneMaker, it was only made possible by our talented team of coders, ui artists, web designers etc

Comments

[Yewande]

Great! I salute you,our very own African Nerd. I would like you to contribute to the worldwide ringtone business and working out how you can give it something distinctly African. As you know, we already have many African ringtones. I have a feeling that there must be something unique & profitable that an African like you can contribute...something as epoch-making as when the Egyptians invented the wheel.
Think hard and pray hard for the inspiration.

[Kemi]

My Dear Brother,
I remember clearly the day, about 5 years ago, when you came home and said you had met Steve Jobs, it was awesome just hearing you recount the experience. I remember us both going whoa, what a great man. Now to see that you are writing software to run on Steve's products is just simply amazing.

Keep up the good work. Keep churning out those great and useful products. Being a mosquito can be a good thing!

[Nathan]

Hey just bought your product, LOVE it. I was using iBricker but I didn't want my phone hacked anymore so I restored it and was looking for something like iToner, except for windows. I downgraded to iTunes 7.3.2 until you can get it compatible with 7.4. But a future suggestion for an update is maybe making an option to make the songs louder/lower in volume?

[tinu]

Go tj

[Robert]

Great story!

Soooo...when will you continue the pain and bring forth the next version that will work with 7.4.1.

Also, if it doesn't reveal any trade secrets can you describe in broad terms what 7.4.x broke and how what you are doing now will elimate the problem going forward.

Or...do you think this will be a constant battle ...

[Brennan]

Go Tunji! Damn the man!