User:Cjbriare/Pylon Software
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| Company type | Abstract Software Company |
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| Genre | Mac Software |
| Founded | October 31, 2003 |
| Founder | Chris Briare |
| Headquarters | Las Vegas, NV , USA |
| Products | StartupChime, The Difficult Browser |
| Owner | Chris Briare |
Number of employees | 3 |
| Website | http://briare.com/pylon |
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Overview
[edit]Pylon Software is a Mac-based software company based in Las Vegas, NV. Pylon Software, (or simply Pylon), makes software that is claimed to be "strange apps". Which is what Chris Briare describes as: "applications that get nothing accomplished, but are fun to use." Since the company's first program was developed in December 2005, it has made only Mac software, however many of the products that were under development ended up being abandoned. On February 1, 2010, Pylon announced that it will be developing iPhone apps in the near future.
History
[edit]In March 2002, Chris Briare's father brought home a PowerBook 540c from work, and loaded it with games. This was said to be when Chris Briare fell in love with computers. Since then he developed a knowledge of computers that was extensive for him at the age of 7. A few years later, Chris Briare was inspired by Apple and other companies to create his own computer company. These ideas formed around August 2003, with a computer company called "Fort". Chris Briare had several ideas for products, but hated the name. He then changed it to Nexus in April 2005, and developed his first application which was made on Xcode, and said to be a huge window with a very small button labeled: "SMALL". The Nexus name lasted up until Mid-2007, until Chris Briare decided that Nexus has been the name for a lot of products, and would conflict with other companies. With that he changed the name to Pylon, and would focus on mainly software development until what he says "career takes off". Some early products of Pylon's was a text editor which was abandoned because Chris Briare didn't know how to program it to save text. He now attends Advanced Technologies Academy in Las Vegas, NV majoring in Computer Science.
Future of Pylon
[edit]Chris Briare states that he wishes to begin development on iPhone apps by May 2010. The company has announced betas of certain products but Chris Briare is unsure of their direction, and may not even start development on some of them. An aspect of Chris Briare's hopes is to build computers based off a checklist, where people send in a list of what they want in their computer, and Pylon will build a "double-custom computer" which is where the user tells what they want, and Pylon makes a case-modded enclosure, and cool looking visuals.
References
[edit]http://www.briare.com/pylon/about.html