I have purchased an Arduino 101 board (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoard101) and am working on a prototype of its integration into a small appliance …with a companion app, of course! The goal being to manufacture it for mass market, not just personal use 
So I would need the basic things you would expect from Bluetooth: connection/disconnection, and a way to pass packets of data back and forth (ideally JSON strings, but anything really).
I guess it is the sort of thing where, $1000USD isn’t unreasonable if our end goal works out (the thing goes to market and we sell some units!)… but early on here in our prototyping stage, it is definitely a very large hurdle for us.
Anyway, I appreciate you getting back to me…