Meet four minor App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they're part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they're cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them.
Since FastCompany.com last spoke with 16-year-old T.J. Pluhacek, who'd developed an app for the iPad, his app sales, have "gone up 300%," he says. His local Portland-area news stations did news reports on him and his NoteLook, too. What also became apparent along the way is that T.J.'s got a posse, an elite band of homework-acing mathletically inclined young developers whose focus and determination makes them shining examples of Generation i.
With the next-gen iPhone all over the Web today, we thought we'd get personal with these under-18, next-gen iPhone app developers and wannabe tech moguls. We suspect there are more of them cropping up each day...
Since FastCompany.com last spoke with 16-year-old T.J. Pluhacek, who'd developed an app for the iPad, his app sales, have "gone up 300%," he says. His local Portland-area news stations did news reports on him and his NoteLook, too. What also became apparent along the way is that T.J.'s got a posse, an elite band of homework-acing mathletically inclined young developers whose focus and determination makes them shining examples of Generation i.
With the next-gen iPhone all over the Web today, we thought we'd get personal with these under-18, next-gen iPhone app developers and wannabe tech moguls. We suspect there are more of them cropping up each day...
- 4/20/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
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