This left WriteNow in limbo until Jobs left Apple to form NeXT and hired Bull Tschumy and his team. Ultimately, MacWrite was completed on schedule and shipped with the Macintosh. Members of the WriteNow team knew about MacWrite, but members of the MacWrite team did not know about WriteNow. Steve Jobs was concerned that those programming MacWrite were not going to be ready for the 1984 release date of the Macintosh Apple Computer therefore commissioned a team of programmers, friends of Apple engineer Bud Tribble, to work independently on a similar project, which eventually became WriteNow. WriteNow was written for Apple Computer, Inc., by John Anderson and Bill Tschumy in Seattle, separate from the Macintosh computer and MacWrite word processor development teams.
