Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. Today we have a special interview episode with the

team from the makers of Halide, popular app for the iPhone and now iPad. You can hear

talk about their app, the app store and whatever else we get to. We have all three members

which is very exciting. First of all Sebastian DeWith has joined us. Thanks for joining us

Sebastian. Good to be here. And from your Twitter bio, I gathered you're a designer, photographer

and motorcycle person. I don't know the exact term for motorcycle lure, motorcycle

extraordinaire, whatever. I'm fine with that. Very good. And I also saw that you used to

work for Apple. Is that correct on some of the design of mobile me and iCloud? Yes, correct.

Very cool. So that's Sebastian DeWith and we also have Ben Sandowski. He used to be the

lead Twitter iOS developer. He helped really launch the app for the iPhone, the Twitter app

there. How's it going Ben? Good. Thanks for having me. And I am correct. You used to work for

Twitter and I was reading on your website that when you joined Twitter, you could fit the entire

team around one large lunch table and then shortly after you left the company, it was over 3,500

employees. Does that sound about right? Sounds about right. I think it was like a thousand engineers

and I was a second iOS developer so we acquired Tweety and so yeah, I didn't build it myself

but to help scale up the team over the time while I was there. Awesome. And finally,

we have Rebecca Slatkin. I would say you're an iOS developer extraordinaire. I saw many places

you've worked including an adjunct professor at Syracuse University. So thanks for being here, Rebecca.

Of course, thanks for having me. So my first question is you guys have a company together and

obviously you're all in the same world, iOS, developers and all that kind of stuff. But how did

you actually find each other and decide to start a company together? See, well, originally

after Twitter, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to work on next. So I did a bunch of different

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