the next billionaire?...and he's only 12

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Wyndru

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lol ios dev

He should go back to python and be happy with his $10/hr.
 
Miramonti

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He's fielding dozens of full scholarship offers from middle schools around the country. :p
 
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Gibson486

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Wyndru said:
lol ios dev

He should go back to python and be happy with his $10/hr.
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Are you kidding me? app development is huge now. When he grows up he will be lucky to make 10/hr doing it, but now they are paying those people a good salary to make apps.
 
Wyndru

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Gibson486 said:
Are you kidding me? app development is huge now. When he grows up he will be lucky to make 10/hr doing it, but now they are paying those people a good salary to make apps.
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A lot of kids are developing apps now. We have a programming class in our high school that covers the ios and android sdk. Development might be huge now, but everyone and their mother is an app dev.

I have a coworker who can barely use a computer and he has made a couple of apps for his droid.

Granted, if he is really good he can make a ton of money, but there is a lot of competition ATM.
 
Gibson486

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Wyndru said:
A lot of kids are developing apps now. We have a programming class in our high school that covers the ios and android sdk. Development might be huge now, but everyone and their mother is an app dev.

I have a coworker who can barely use a computer and he has made a couple of apps for his droid.

Granted, if he is really good he can make a ton of money, but there is a lot of competition ATM.
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That is why I said now. App development is what web design was. Pretty soon you will not need a BS in CS or CE or EE to do it (at least the basic stuff). Right now, however, there are a companies wanting to pay in excess of 70K a year for these people. My friend is taking huge advantage of this. He is getting paid 80K a year to develop apps, but he knows that the bubble will burst, so he does ARM development on the side.
 
ViviTheMage

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Shame, he'll never have a real childhood...app dev is easy! ;)

He presents pretty well though, I doubt I could at that age, haha.
 
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Justin Bieber Whack-a-Mole? Earth fortune teller?

Here are the other "apps" from this kid:
Bustin Howie - Whac-a-Mole
Bustin Piers - Whac-a-Mole
Rinaldi’s Mobile - information on the yummy, healthy sandwiches available for The Original Rinaldi's Italian Deli in Manhattan Beach, CA
(http://carrotcorp.com/CarrotCorp/CarrotCorp_Apps.html)


Billionaire? Right.... Not from those apps. I question how much coding do those "apps" involved.
 
Blueychan

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Cocoa is such a powerful framework that it allows you to make shitty apps in a few hours or a quality apps in several months/years. Just because it's only take a few hours to create a shitty app on iOS doesn't mean all iOS app development is easy. Like development in all platform, quality counts. Not another fart app.
 
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Macamus Prime

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Blueychan said:
Cocoa is such a powerful framework that it allows you to make shitty apps in a few hours or a quality apps in several months/years. Just because it's only take a few hours to create a shitty app on iOS doesn't mean all iOS app development is easy. Like development in all platform, quality counts. Not another fart app.
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You mean like how iOS developer Chair put out Infinity Blade? And seems to have switched focus from the XBox (Shadow Complex) to iOS (Infinity Blade 2)?

You clearly do not know what you, I or Chair, are talking about.
 
Blueychan

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Gibson486 said:
That is why I said now. App development is what web design was. Pretty soon you will not need a BS in CS or CE or EE to do it (at least the basic stuff). Right now, however, there are a companies wanting to pay in excess of 70K a year for these people. My friend is taking huge advantage of this. He is getting paid 80K a year to develop apps, but he knows that the bubble will burst, so he does ARM development on the side.
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Mobile application development isn't going any where soon because smartphones and tablets are going to be here for a while.

You act like mobile development doesn't required knowlegde of design patterns, OOP, inheritance, data structures, ect.
 
Macamus Prime

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Haha...something most people only download for FREE and never buy? And even if 50% of those 500M downloads were purchased (at .99) and he got 100% of the sale that's chump change next to the word "billionaire", he's no where close.
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Billionare, no.

"Rich" - yes; which is the post I was addressing.

And, the IP of Angry Birds sold well with other merchandise. The point is, the iOS platform launched a pretty successful franchise.

Also, why do you work for Apple, since it sounds like you hate it so much? I mean, for you to know exactly what the activity is in regards to iOS apps, you must be on the inside.

I guess, you have or made more money than a quarter of a billion dollars? Since you scoff at an iOS success story, you clearly have had more success in other business ventures.
 
Blueychan

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Macamus Prime said:
You mean like how iOS developer Chair put out Infinity Blade? And seems to have switched focus from the XBox (Shadow Complex) to iOS (Infinity Blade 2)?

You clearly do not know what you, I or Chair, are talking about.
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Hmmm...I think you misunderstood. What I meant to say is that iOS SDK is so flexible that you could churn out app in matter of hours or months. Beginner could start right away and make a simple app, but if you create commercial apps, it a lot more involved. People on ATOT, like Wyndru and Gibson, are laughing at iOS development but what the different from .Net or Java development.
 
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