Author's note: What you are about to read is an interview with a developer who works for Ars Technica's parent company Cond� Nast. The interview was my idea and I approached this developer (and the company) about doing it, not the other way around. We here at Ars think that the iOS development team within Cond� is made up of some pretty cool folks that most people never get to hear about, which is why I wanted to do this interview. Aside from discussions within Ars, there has been no editorial input from anyone at Cond� Nast about the content of this interview.
If you're not a writer or editor for one of Cond� Nast's famed publications, it's easy to get lost inside the publishing giant. One unsung hero who labors behind the scenes is Robert "Tolar" Haining, an Ars reader and Technical Architect who has been instrumental in bringing Cond�'s offerings to the iPhone and iPad. "The first app I ever worked on was Epicurious, but the original was just a rudimentary version that I wrote on my own time back in 2008," Haining told Ars. "At the time, we were working on Facebook apps, so I wrote the Epicurious iOS prototype in the meantime just to show it could be done, and suddenly the ball got rolling."
Haining and his team released the first Wired product review app (no longer available on the App Store) as well as the non-prototype version of the Epicurious app (a personal favorite of mine) and the Concierge postcard app before delving into the magazine apps that we have become familiar with. "We started with the GQ single-issue iPhone app, rolled it into a monthly model, then built the iPad app for GQ that launched along with Epicurious," Haining said. "Then we turned that into a platform that we ended up using on the other magazines as well.
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