App Watch: Fiddling on the IPad
Music app developer Smule’s latest app, Magic Fiddle, emerged out of a dare. Walking out of classical musician Lang Lang’s concert in San Francisco last April, in which the pianist played an encore with Smule’s iPad piano app, Smule co-founder Ge Wang joked with colleagues about creating a violin app that would force users to put their iPads up to their face and rest their chins on the device to make it work.
“We thought, ‘Wow, that idea is so bad, it might just work’” says Mr. Wang, looking back.
Almost seven months later in November, the company came out with Magic Fiddle, a violin app.
