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Gooooo us! Whispernet for everything!

You've got it- you can build your own board using our reference design and pay us a minor fee to use our lovely cloud. Pricing isn't public yet, but we can discuss it privately if you have a need. Thanks!

And a lot cheaper than Imp at scale- <$15 per device in hardware at scale.

The OS part is that you're running the Spark firmware to manage comms and security, which talks to the Spark Cloud and makes the rest of it easy. Building the cloud app to be fast, stable, scalable, and secure from scratch is difficult, so this is a SaaS play. Plus, how are you going to manage your 100,000 devices in the field? With Spark you can even do it all with API calls.

and, uh, cough I just joined Spark as well...

The main product isn't the board -- CC3000+STM32 -- but rather the glorious and inscrutable cloud service that goes with it. The board designs are even being given away for free, it's OSHW.

The Spark Core works as a standalone microcontroller (like an Arduino) and a WiFi connection (quite unlike an Arduino).

All you need is Spark.