Steve Jobs, Champ Bennett Help iPhone Users VegOut
Written by Vegetarian Star on February 23rd, 2009 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants, Tech.
VegOut
Navigating your way through a city you’ve never visited is bad enough without having to worry about finding a restaurant that serves good vegetarian grub!
That has changed. iPhone users can now locate veg restaurants with the VegOut application, which pulls restaurant information based on city and state.
The application was created by Brooklyn musician and free-lance software developer Champ Bennett, who personally asked Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who’s been known to waver from being a vegan to vegetarian to pescetarian, for his opinion on the application. He did get some response from Mr. Jobs.
“I couldn’t think of a better candidate to beta test the app”, Bennett said, according to a press release received via email by the blogger of Vegtalk.
“I wrote to him, and days later he actually wrote back asking when he could try it out! I responded asking for his UUID so I could build him a beta application that he could run on his iPhone. The next day he announced his hiatus from Apple and I never heard back again. Oh, well.”
The idea came to him after having a hard time finding a good place to eat while touring in Europe in mid-2008.
As of today, version 1.1 of the app is on Apple’s AppStore or click on this link to go straight to the application. For now, VegOut will only locate vegetarian and vegan restaurants, but there are plans in the future to add a function allowing users to download recipes.
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