Urban Airship has raised $21.6M in less than 2 years, and I can't help but wonder when (and if) they're actually going to start making money. Providing a RESTf

Urban Airship has raised $21.6M in less than 2 years, and I can't help but wonder when (and if) they're actually going to start making money. Providing a RESTful front-end on Apple's push notification API is a pretty small thing. Apple solved the subscription problem, which was supposed to be one of UA's legs to stand on. This statement makes me think they're grasping at straws as the platform vendors iterate them into obsolescence: As we look to 2012 and beyond we’ll be looking at new ways to bake our platform into connected devices. Mobile phones are our bread and butter but we see opportunities with tablets, ultra-notebooks, desktops, TVs, set-top boxes and more. I've always thought UA's business model could only ever support a "lifestyle" company (not intended the derogatory sense, by any means). They're not really proving me wrong here, and it seems like they're inflating themselves with VC, burning cash at a phenomenal rate, and grasping at straws to try and find something they can do to make money other than wrap Apple and Android push notifications in a REST API.