EverythingMe closes down despite raising $37.5M

> The three company founders initially went in a different direction, before deciding to developing a launcher that would accommodate a completely different interface on the Android device. The original idea was a search of applications and the Internet, the results of which are displayed as icons of the relevant content, such as Wikipedia, IMDB, YouTube, etc., instead of an ordinary list of links.

I mean, really? They're reinventing the idea of pages of icons (my current launcher) by giving me a revolutionary page of icons? I assume (and hope) I'm missing the point...

How do you spend tens of millions of dollars on creating and launching a launcher?

Perhaps they did something else as well, I don't know; I hope they were transparent on their spending – and that the sources are audited.

Sad thing is that they were able to raise that much money while other companies who have a clear biz model of sales can't raise that kind of money. More buzzwords=more funding

We wouldn't need these crappy launchers if we didn't need so many apps.

Sadly, people have been brainwashed into believing that they need different apps to do different things, and this only reinforces the application paradigm.

One day, hopefully soon, there will be a single app (probably the OS) that will be used for 90% of tasks. Shopping, setting up a meeting, reaching a friend and requesting a cab will all be done through a single interface.