How to be an App millionaire
Once the internet was the new Wild West. Then came the 'app' - and now anyone can have any idea for sale in the digital high street within days. Here, app entrepreneurs tell YOU how to do it
The first thing you should know about making a fortune from computer programming is that computer programmers run on coffee. It’s well- known. Which is why I began my first foray into creating a mobile- phone app by waking up VERY early – antisocial hours are also de rigueur – putting on a pot of filter Kenya Peaberry, and setting to work.
By 9am, I was sitting next to an empty filter coffee pot and in front of two brand-new apps ready for an airing on my Samsung Galaxy S, which uses Google Android software. I am now a paid-up member of the new digital gold rush sweeping Britain, the one that has swept up everyone from City lawyers to bin men, and made a few of them fortunes, many of them handy incomes in excess of £100,000 a year. And some very little indeed.
To be clear: an app – or application – is a piece of software built to perform one function, such as sending emails or playing a game, and is separate from ‘system software’, such as Windows or Android. The current ‘app revolution’ is built mostly on selling cheap, downloadable apps to iPhones and Android phones, but also to PCs. The app can be a one-touch route to a train timetable, or popular game like the No 1 app, Angry Birds, or a newspaper website, or a dating service. A typical cost is 59p, paid through an existing account such as the Apple store, though many are free or have free ‘lite’ versions.
For more click on the download and a big thank you to the Sunday mail
Vince (The Mad Hatter)
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