But the natural fit between Uber and its new partners suggests there's a lot of merit in the idea of shared real-world services providers for mobile apps – delivery, transport, accommodation, etc. are after all, just other things that it would benefit businesses to have, but that are prohibitively expensive to develop and maintain on their own.
These include a new Apple Watch app for Apple's WatchOS 3, a Facebook Messenger bot, and a new mobile app for delivery drivers to help partner restaurants keep customers updated on the status and whereabouts of their order.
We want to be as close to mobile phone app delivery as possible," says Irvine, adding: "It should just work".
This differs from many of Lavanda's competitors, who focus more on the convenience of advance booking via a mobile app, and collection and delivery, but outsource the actual work to partner laundrettes or industrial out of town laundry services.
That includes a tablet app used by employees in its food hubs to organize the items that they stock and ensure that they are stored at the correct temperature, as well as a mobile app used to power deliveries.
PacketZoom, a startup that helps app developers speed up and optimize app delivery on mobile devices, announced a $5M Series A today.
UberEATS customers already have the ease-of-use of Uber's mobile app for food ordering and delivery.
If they do, it will be because they figured out how to create more customer delight than just mobile app order-placement and efficient delivery.
StreetHub, the U.K. startup that's helping independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online — including offering 'click and collect' functionality via its mobile app and 90 minute local delivery — has raised a further $2.6 million in funding.
Instead of returning home to find a sticky note left on your door, you can use myDoorman's mobile app instead to schedule evening deliveries of your packages on demand.
