AutoRap by Smule

Prerna Gupta is an author and futurist. She previously served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Smule, where she remains an advisor to the Board of Directors. This post originally appeared on the Clarity.fm blog....

The debut of Apple's new 64-bit A7 Application Processor has been assailed by more than one industry figure insisting that the new chip isn't anything special, but a series of iOS developers are reporting huge performance gains and already using the new chip to accomplish "desktop class" tasks that were not previously possible on a mobile device.

Smule is on fire. Just take a look at the work these guys have done since their 2008 launch: $25.5 million in funding, more app releases than I can keep up with and a pretty sweet acquisition. And the latest app, AutoRap, is seeing some incredible early success. After less than a week on the App Store, AutoRap has seen over 2.5 million downloads with over 12 million raps created. Yes, raps. Like, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Eminem style raps.

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