{"id":3675,"date":"2018-07-10T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2018-07-10T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:27:13","slug":"blast-from-the-past-the-2009-podcast-with-the-designer-of-the-1st-1-iphone-app-koi-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/blast-from-the-past-the-2009-podcast-with-the-designer-of-the-1st-1-iphone-app-koi-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past: The 2009 podcast with the designer of the 1st #1 iPhone app &#8211; Koi Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/itewf-71cec?from=yiiadmin' data-link='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/itewf-71cec?from=yiiadmin' height='100' width='100%' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' data-name='pb-iframe-player' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first number on iPhone app in the Apple app store was a graphical entertainment app named &#8220;Koi Pond&#8221; which simulated the physics of touch water that had a koi fish swimming around in it. In January 2009, I was fortunate to speak with Bill Trost, the designer for Blimp Pilots which developed the app. The group was a bunch (five people) who formerly worked at Sony Online at EverQuest.<\/p>\n<p>I was especially interested to learn that the app had been used in therapeutic ways that the app builders did not anticipate.<\/p>\n<p>You hear my discussion with Bill in the 20 minute discussion I had with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first number on iPhone app in the Apple app store was a graphical entertainment app named &#8220;Koi Pond&#8221; which simulated the physics of touch water that had a koi fish swimming around in it. In January 2009, I was fortunate to speak with Bill Trost, the designer for Blimp Pilots which developed the app. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}