Andrew Stone (computer programmer)
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Andrew C. Stone
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June 12, 1956 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Occupation | Computer programmer, former architect |
| Nationality | American |
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Andrew "Andy" C. Stone is an American computer programmer best known for his iOS app Twittelator, which to date has sold over a million units for the iPhone and the iPad. The founder, director, and principal programmer for Stone Design Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico. In his 25 plus year career as a programmer, he has published over 35 software titles for Hypercard, the NeXT workstation, Mac OS X, and currently for iOS iPhones and iPads.
Andrew Stone was a contributing author to the Waite Group’s Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters
Stone developed software for Sandia National Laboratories called ProtoTymer which allowed physical interfaces to be trial tested in a software version.
Fascinated by Steve Jobs’ vision for the personal computer, Stone was the first independent developer for the NeXT Computer to ship a shrink-wrap product, TextArt in October 1989. TextArt allowed designers to manipulate PostScript text with virtual knobs, dials and sliders. By 1990, TextArt had evolved into Create, a drawing program which shipped in 1991. At the same time, Stone Design developed a multimedia database manager called DataPhile.
Stone Design was a leader in electronic software distribution on NeXT and was a constant advertising presence on the first ever App Store which was also invented using NeXT tools, The Electronic AppWrapper. According to an employee at the Paget Press (the startup responsible for the first App Store) it was originally AppWrapper #3 that was first demonstrated to Steve Jobs and showcased Stone Design Apps. where applications like Create and DataPhile were selling along with 3D Reality and other Stone Design Apps. Stone Design Apps can still be found on the iOS App Store today, making Stone Design perhaps the longest running developer actively using electronic distribution via any App Store service.
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