So it looks like it’s really not that easy to get your hands on that iFund money. Certainly my one submission so far got nothing but the “we have concluded that it is not an opportunity that we are prepared to pursue at this time” form email back, but I wasn’t surprised at that, it was a fairly subtle tweak to an established model with no particularly valuable proprietary IP involved — but hey, it was iPhone-specific, so I figured I’d give it a shot.
However, looks like pretty much everybody is having the same luck! The current stats are two (2) officially funded, and reputedly one (1) more with an offer and ten (10) being considered seriously — out of some 1700 applications. Well, that’s not a high hit rate, is it?
Number 1 is Pelago Whrrl, as we mentioned earlier.
Number 2 is a company called iControl, which if I’m getting the gist of things correctly is basically writing an appliance controller app, like the old school X10 controller software such as Indigo, just better hardware.
So there you go; now we have double the number of actual examples of what it takes to get iFunded. Put those thinking caps on, people!
h/t: iPodNN!
