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First Venture Capital Funded iPhone Apps: Whrrl, iControl
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Haha! More news I can use!
When Apple announced the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in March, they also announced the creation of a $100 million dollar "iFund" by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Businessweek reports on the first two companies that have been chosen to receive funding out of over 1700 submissions.
Pelago's Whrrl application ties the iPhone's mapping capabilities to help find out restaurants and services in your
area:
The other application to receive funding is iControl, a home automation application
that would allow you to remotely control devices in your house (such as
lighting, air conditioning, etc..) through your iPhone.
Kleiner Perkins has reportedly extended one more offer to another company
and has 10 others they are seriously considering. Though no agreements have
been put in place, Pelago is optimistic that they could be featured by Apple
either at the WWDC keynote or even as a bundled application with the iPhone.
Boy oh boy, this event in less than 2 weeks had better be the greatest product unveiling in the history of product releases or mark my words Apple will lose a substantial contingent of its die-hard loyal fan base. Sure, even if the update is crappy and doesn't live up to the hype (how could it possibly?) they'll still sell enough of them to newbies to make headlines, but for we connaisseurs who've been through this before with Apple, well, we're just fed the f$#! up and we're not gonna take it anymore! We'll revolt in the form of simply keeping our current phones, downloading whatever half-a$$ firmware update they issue and let that suffice...until they release a product ALL-INCLUSIVE of features that meet --- no, EXCEED --- our high demands and descriminating tastes. Let Steve Jobs release some ol' bullsh*t come June 9th. Just let him. Ohhh I want him to do it soooo bad! I dare him, dammit! And see what happens!!!
When Apple announced the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in March, they also announced the creation of a $100 million dollar "iFund" by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Businessweek reports on the first two companies that have been chosen to receive funding out of over 1700 submissions.
Pelago's Whrrl application ties the iPhone's mapping capabilities to help find out restaurants and services in your
area:
The other application to receive funding is iControl, a home automation application
that would allow you to remotely control devices in your house (such as
lighting, air conditioning, etc..) through your iPhone.
Kleiner Perkins has reportedly extended one more offer to another company
and has 10 others they are seriously considering. Though no agreements have
been put in place, Pelago is optimistic that they could be featured by Apple
either at the WWDC keynote or even as a bundled application with the iPhone.
Boy oh boy, this event in less than 2 weeks had better be the greatest product unveiling in the history of product releases or mark my words Apple will lose a substantial contingent of its die-hard loyal fan base. Sure, even if the update is crappy and doesn't live up to the hype (how could it possibly?) they'll still sell enough of them to newbies to make headlines, but for we connaisseurs who've been through this before with Apple, well, we're just fed the f$#! up and we're not gonna take it anymore! We'll revolt in the form of simply keeping our current phones, downloading whatever half-a$$ firmware update they issue and let that suffice...until they release a product ALL-INCLUSIVE of features that meet --- no, EXCEED --- our high demands and descriminating tastes. Let Steve Jobs release some ol' bullsh*t come June 9th. Just let him. Ohhh I want him to do it soooo bad! I dare him, dammit! And see what happens!!!
Umm, I seriously hope you just missed your meds or something, but do you even know what the heck you're writing? I can't make any sense of it at all, especially since this news wasn't even about Apple directly, it's about two other companies creating products for the iPhone.
jW
Both apps are pretty unoriginal, but with good execution could be nice products. The "web 2.0" way to make money on Whrll is to have context sensitive ads... "Looking for a hoagie in 12345? Try John's Hoagie at the corner of 1st and Main."
Anyway, to the point of social networking APIs -- they release those APIs specifically so that their business partners don't have to retool everytime Facebook changes the way something works. The API is designed to be stable for a long time.
X-10 Automation is pretty lousy too. I've been wondering for years what the next standard will be. X-10 has been around since the 70's and it's sophistication reflects that.
Grow up a bit.
I for one find this news very interesting and relevant, as the apps that will run on the new iPhone software are far more potentially useful than the new iPhone features that are rumored (or rather, the new features are made useful by the software that can take advantage of them). It's exactly the type of stuff that I want to hear about. Besides, while I know this is a rumor site, it's nice to hear something solid. There aren't any iPhone rumors that are even somewhat solid, so you can't blame the site for reporting stuff that's solid and quite interesting.
jW
I will probably use the first application for places to eat but I doubt I will touch iControl as I am fine using my devices at home for lighting, heating, etc....
HAHAHA...It looks like he hasn't had his meds all week. If you have a minute, you should read his first few "contributions" he has made to this site.
C'mon Arn, he even took a jab at you!
Apple may be working on its own iControl.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/476107/
People, can we get more original with names?