Everyone who's made it big, did it while they were young. Richard Branson (Virgin), Albert Einstein (Theory of Relativity - don't be misled by the famous picture of him as an old man), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steves' Wozniak & Jobs (Apple), Hewlett & Packard (guess what they did!), the list goes on and on. Well they've just been joined by one of the newest and youngest internet millionaires, Nick D'Aloisio.
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| Nick D'Alosio |
Young Nick at 17 has just been given more than
£20 million by Yahoo for a phone app he developed when he was even younger at 15. Developed at home, the app he called Summly uses clever programming to produce a daily digest of all the main news stories on a phone, providing users with quick links to more detailed articles.
It was only released in the Apple Store four months ago, but since then its gathered over one million downloads. Amazing stuff.
Nick's success, again proves that it's the young, the one's closest to new developing trends, that have the coolest ideas: age is not a barrier to success. And with technology, armed with a simple computer, any one can produce world beating apps in their bedroom.
So what's stopping you? What ideas have you got for a phone app? What would you like to see on your phone?
Ignorance is no longer a barrier. You'll find out to develop phone apps in a new upcoming unit on android programming. All that's missing is the starting idea, so get your thinking hats on!
How would you spend £20 million smackers?
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