Panic (company)

Panic Inc.

Type	Corporation
Industry	Software publishing
Founded	Portland, Oregon
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon
Key people	Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser
Products	Transmit, Coda, Coda for iOS, Status Board, Prompt, Transmit iOS, Firewatch.
Website	panic.com

Panic is an Oregon-based software company that specializes in applications for Mac OS X and iOS. It was founded by Steven Frank^[1] and Cabel Sasser.

Their flagship program is Transmit, an FTP client,^[2] first released in 1998. The program currently competes with Fetch, Interarchy and Cyberduck, the other popular FTP clients for Mac OS X. Transmit has won a number of design awards, including Macworld Best of Show in 2005^[3] and a 2005 Apple Design Award, for the Best Use of Mac OS X Tiger Technologies.^[4]

Audion, released in 1999, was a skinnable MP3 media player that competed with MacAMP and SoundJam MP, which were the only other Mac OS MP3 players at the time. Apple's iTunes was released in 2001, and in 2004 Panic retired Audion's development and began releasing it free of charge.^[5]

In 2004, Panic released their third major program, Unison, a Usenet reader. Unison also won an 2004 Apple Design Award, for Best Mac OS X User Experience, and was runner-up for Best Mac OS X Product of the year.^[6]

In 2005, Panic expanded their offerings to include T-shirts.^[7]

In 2007, the company released their fourth major program, Coda, a web development application^[8] for which Panic was awarded the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience,<ref name=""macnn_2007"> "Apple Design Awards 2007 winners announced". Macnn. 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2010-07-18. </ref> taking the award for a 2nd time.^[6]

The company's first game, Firewatch, was released on 9th February 2016. The game was published by Panic and developed by Campo Santo.^[9]

Products

• Transmit
• Coda
• Coda for iOS
• Status Board
• Prompt
• Transmit iOS
• Firewatch

Discontinued products

• Audion
• CandyBar
• Desktastic
• Stattoo
• Unison
• Panic Goods (an online store where you could buy Panic-designed T-shirts and more)
• Katamari Damacy T-shirts—Working directly with game desiger Keita Takahashi, the shirts incorporate his designs utilizing many special silk-screen printing techniques.
• Noby Noby Boy T-shirts. Working again with Namco-Bandai and Takahashi, the shirts feature the BOY character in different lengths: 12", 24", 48" and 144".

References

1. ↑ Rosmarin, Rachel (2007-06-08). "Developers To Jobs: Give Me My iPhone!". Forbes. Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
2. ↑ Sorrel, Charlie (2010-05-13). "Video: iPad Loading Software onto Apple ][e". Wired. Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
3. ↑ "Best of Show: Macworld Expo San Francisco". 2005-01-15. Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
4. ↑ Cohen, Peter (2005-06-10). "WWDC: Apple Design Award 2005 winners announced". MacWorld. 
5. ↑ Gibson, Brad (2004-11-11). "Panic "Retires" Audion; Reveals Inside Story". The Mac Observer. Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
6. 1 2 Ecker, Clint (2007-06-12). "Apple Design Awards 2007 winners". Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
7. ↑ Staff (2005-02-03). "Panic Pauses Software Development For a Second to Release T-Shirts". 
8. ↑ Martellaro, John (2007-04-24). "Panic Releases Coda 1.0". Retrieved 2010-07-18. 
9. ↑ "Firewatch: hope and heartbreak in the American wilderness". The Guardian. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.