http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/ Engadget Comments for Kleiner Perkins iFund doubles to $200m, investing in iPad apps from Shazam, ngmoco and more http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Who The F is that?

I like this.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
and how much L33t programming does it take to "optimize" Shazam for a bigger screen?? :thud:


Just remember that Apple has no part in setting these prices. This "gold rush" greed that causes Shazam iPad to cost 300% more than Shazam iPod is fully due to the developers.

The market will even itself out after a couple months though, once they realize that most people have no interest in paying $4.99 for Flight Control "HD". Don't worry. We will see PLENTY of good, free/99cent iPad apps, and maybe some paid app developers will allow a free port to the iPad.

It's HARD to get your app to appear in the top 10. Selling it for more than it's worth is going to cause you more harm than good. Developers know this.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Are you fucking kidding me? In general, these apps are RIDICULOUSLY easy to program.

Sure you have apps like TomTom's nav app, or Shazam, which are the exceptions, and obviously require a HUGE initial investment of time/money, but these types of apps represent an extremely small sect of all the apps out there.

Fart apps, Flight Control, Bejeweled.... not so much "R&D"]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Agree. Shazam app for iPhone/iPod touch is supposed to work in Ipad. I will be running it in small screen or doubled pixellated version to find the song in my Ipad. But the thing is I am not buying Ipad.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Ridiculous Apple developer license and app fees. And all those damn hoops you have to jump through.

Well ok, it isn't that much, but it's still really ridiculous. Anyone who has actually attempted to develop for (non-jailbroken) iPhone OS knows what I'm talking about.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Still its 100 MILLION F@#$ing DOLLARS, for 14 apps... 14!]]>Mar 31st 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Uh... new apps that don't exist on the iPhone...

where's my Nobel prize]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/You: "Don't know, let me get out my iPad." *holds up iPad to the speaker with Shazam open*]]>Mar 31st 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/You: "Don't know, let me google the lyrics on my (insert name of any phone with internet access here)!!!"]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
+1

It takes WAYYY less time to Google "'word1 word2 word3 word4' lyrics" than it takes to load shazam, hold it up to a speaker, upload to their servers, and pray that there isn't too much ambient noise for the damn thing to work.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/im with you man, shazam seems kinda weird for the ipad, i get when youre at a bar or something and you pull out your phone, but pulling out the ipad seems strange]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Do people hate instrumental music here? I can't figure out why AdmiralKlingon was downranked. Most of what I listen to is instrumental. He makes a good point, you can't google the lyrics if there aren't any lyrics. You have to use something like shazam or midomi.]]>Mar 31st 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Yeah I wonder if that program would have any trouble with non-mainstream music such as D'n'B.]]>Apr 1st 2010 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/My friend has an android phone that has an app that does this and it takes all of 5 seconds to load...

sony ericsons have had this feature for a while...

just saying, theres many better ways of finding a song (instrumental or not) theres no point trying to insult google because youre so far up apples butt you cant see the other products...]]>Apr 1st 2010 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/dude you're a moron. MS didn't "throw away" multi-tasking because they figured "if apple can get by without it, then so can we." They threw it out because it's imperfect (and frankly not highly-demanded by non-ENGADGET readers). Copy and Paste was thrown out b/c nobody really uses it. Accept it, bro. Apple got it all right (on their first shot, no less), and everybody else is following suit.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
Passive aggressive, much? Is somebody bitter that Apple's app store is an unqualified, undisputed runaway success? Using words like "bandwagon" to describe these investors is a bit misguided.]]>Mar 31st 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Since I can't uprank you, I will just imagine i press an imaginary "+" button.]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/Mar 31st 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/kleiner-perkins-ifund-expands-by-200m-investing-in-ipad-apps-f/
My apps are under "Modern Geek"]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:49PM