The world of apps have taken humanity by storm. Millions of apps are being downloaded every year reaching numbers as high as 100 billion. While a vast majority of these apps are created by Independent developers and established firms, there is a new trend on the rise. Following are three examples of how we should never underestimate the intelligence of the young.
A few months back a game in the App store knocked the mighty Angry Birds from its first place spot. The Game entitled “Bubble Ball” took the number one spot on the ‘Free Downloads’ section in the App store. What made this event even more significant was the fact that a 14 year old created the game. Robert Nay was shocked to find out that his game was beating a game that is almost as famous as the iPhone itself. This game now has been downloaded 16 million times! Being only fourteen years old, can you imagine where he’ll be at eighteen? Twenty Four?
Going even a bit younger we have another amazing example of Teen Developer gone Wild. As our second example we take a look at Thomas Suarez who not only develops apps, but also is a speaker of TED Talks. This boy genius created games such as Bustin Jieber, a ‘Justin Bieber whack-a-mole game’ and an Earth Fortune Teller App which is like a Magic Eight ball except using the earth in HD. If you download these apps you’ll see the attention to detail and then after that you realize, “This was made by a 12-year old?” In addition to his game making abilities he also created an ‘App Club’ in his school where any kid can come and learn how to code.
While these two examples show that age has nothing to do with creativity and hard work, the following one will inspire you to the Zuckerberg level.
Our last example we’ll talk about today in our Rise of Teenage App Development discourse is a British teen by the name of Nick D’Aloisio who at age 17 sold an app for a speculative amount of $30m USD to Yahoo. His App Summly essentially summarizes news stories and topics of interests. This teen got backed by Rupert Murdoch, Aston Kutcher and even some of the original investors of Facebook, Siri and so forth when he was 16. He will now work with Yahoo to integrate the technology into their news feeds allowing their users to receive condensed news stories to speed up their processing capabilities.
As you can see that App developers are getting younger and younger. The problem, as Thomas Suarez pointed out, is that there aren’t many places to go to learn how to code when you’re young. If you want to learn football or tennis, you know where to go. However when it comes to something as popular as apps and app development, options are limited.
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Who knows, your kid could be the next Nick D’Aloisio!
