{"id":419,"date":"2019-07-02T10:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seventh-studios.com\/project\/harper\/?p=419"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:06:43","slug":"lg-to-integrate-drop-into-its-smart-appliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/lg-to-integrate-drop-into-its-smart-appliances\/","title":{"rendered":"LG to Integrate Drop into its Smart Appliances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seventh-studios.com\/project\/harper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/drop_grey_tomatoes-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-420\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop, the smart recipe software startup, today announced a \npartnership that will put its guided cooking software on LG\u2019s SmartThinq\n line of appliances. This adds to a growing list of major appliance \ncompanies that are working with <a href=\"https:\/\/getdrop.com\">Drop<\/a> and further illustrates how LG is taking a very open approach when it comes to software partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop\u2019s software provides guided recipes for cooks, and hardware \nintegreations such as the one with LG allows the user to control \nappliances via the Drop app. Drop CEO, Ben Harris, told me by phone that\n the Drop app recently hit half a million downloads and that customers \ncan expect to see the Drop integration start with LG ovens and cooktops \ngo live in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop started off as a hardware maker with its connected scale, but \npivoted to creating a \u201cKitchen OS,\u201d with a heavy focus on recipes, for \nother appliance companies. The company has also been the subject of a \nmultiyear <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/perfect-company-files-second-patent-infringement-claim-against-drop\/\">patent infringement lawsuit<\/a> brought by Perfect Company.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Drop, the LG deal bolsters its lineup of existing hardware partnerships, which includes Bosch, <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/drops-recipe-app-platform-now-will-control-ge-wi-fi-appliances\/\">GE<\/a>, De\u2019Longhi and <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/kenwood-partners-with-drop-to-create-a-smart-multicooker\/\">Kenwood<\/a> (not the car stereo maker).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of startups vying to be the main software layer that\n cooks interact with in the connected kitchen, and they are all going \nfor the same hardware partnerships. Rivals SideChef and Innit both \nannounced integrations with LG appliances at CES earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For it\u2019s part, LG is showing that it\u2019s open to being, well, open to \nall comers in the connected kitchen software space. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/innit-and-sidechef-recipes-to-talk-with-lg-ovens\/\">SideChef and Innit<\/a>, LG\u2019s SmartThinq appliances work with both <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/smartthinq-ing-lg-appliances-to-work-with-google-and-alexa\/\">Amazon Alexa and Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Ireland and San Francisco, Drop has <a href=\"https:\/\/thespoon.tech\/drop-kitchen-nabs-8-million-in-funding-as-kitchen-tech-investment-heats-up\/\">raised $12 million<\/a> in funding and has 30 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop, the smart recipe software startup, today announce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}