Brent is one-third of Q Branch where he writes Vesper. Blog: inessential.com.

Michael is a founder of Flexibits where he works on Fantastical. Twitter: @macguitar.

Identical Cousins 15: I Got Nothin’

Recorded 19 April 2013.

You can download the m4a file.

Brent and Michael talk about feedback from testers, Siri and privacy, using open source code, Summly, and iSteve.

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Some things we mention:

23 Apr 2013