Young appmakers can't count on a job for life (but will be invaluable anyway)
Young appmakers can't count on a job for life (but will be invaluable anyway)
The Grauniad is sardonic about a new generation of one or two person app shops:
Last month was the turn of Nick D’Aloisio, a 17-year-old who slaved away in his bedroom over an app before flogging it to Yahoo for $30m (£19m). In every profile that played up his normality, and played down his investment-banker dad and funding from Stephen Fry, there was an almost audible sigh: if only more slugabed Britons would do this …
It’s true. Not everyone will be able to have that kind of runaway success, and they’d shouldn’t either.
What we should be celebrating is that more people understand what making good software actually means.
No longer is software made by hundreds of coders in a cube farm, burnt to a CD and stocked on a shelf. It is something we download and use in the bus queue and on the loo.
As even more businesses wake up to the power of having good software (for customers and employees) those people who understand how to make it will become even more valuable – even if they’ve not sold their company for many bazillions.
