Friday, July 3, 2009

"I woke up... an entrepreneur" -- Eleven Year Old Creates iPhone App

You've probably heard of the 11 year old kid that developed the iPhone App, MathTime. According to Inc's website,
Owen Voorhees may seem to be an unlikely tech entrepreneur, because he's just 11. But for the past nine months, he climbed a mountain of self and parental doubt, overcame unfamiliar programming languages, and pored over college-level computer science textbooks--all to develop his own iPhone application. Last month, his app, MathTime, debuted in the App Store and quickly rose to No. 13 in the paid, educational apps section.
This story and others like it demonstrate the power of technology and the Internet. It's amazing that a preteen can actually create a program that can be sold to thousands of people on the Internet. Of course, this shows how easy Apple has made it for people to access the iPhone's API's and deveop applications that are useful and simple.

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