Apple iPhone goes surfing with Surfline.com app
The Apple iPhone has to be one of the greatest inventions. Right up there with microwave oven and CDs. With tons of apps, there is sure to be something to suit your fancy. For me it’s the weather and surfing apps. Like Surfline’s surf report app with 150 live-streaming cameras positioned at key surf spots around the globe and a sophisticated software system designed to predict wave conditions even a week in advance, Surfline.com is a surfer’s paradise. That’s why 1.5 million unique web users—and 500,000 more on mobile—use the site every month.
To help keep Surfline constantly updated and running, Scientific Product Manager Graeme Rae uses an iPhone. “The surf doesn’t stop,” he says. “And with the Apple iPhone, I can reboot a server from the beach. I can reboot a server from bed. I can even reboot it from work.”
“A lot of us here at Surfline, before we get out of bed in the morning, we roll over and check the surf and the cameras on our iPhones. The idea of seeing a video on a mobile device was a dream for people for a long time. And that time is now.” says Brian Mezger, Director of Technology at Surfline.
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