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Ages 9 & 11 ? Doing high level graphics & programming? I'm guessing something in the genes.
Go buddies go!
How great, good for them and educational apps at that! The taller boy looks like a young Bill Gates! LOL
This young man is inspiring.
I hate the word entrepreneur. This kid is an inventor!!
You are right. The dad is the entrepreneur. He's the one with the business sense.
Well done, Owen. You remind me a lot of myself... for whatever THAT might be worth. Congratulations on your success, and may computers continue to bring you challenge and reward throughout your life and career. It sounds like you are well on your way. As you now see, there's nothing quite like selling your own software.
Yea. Until Apple steals it!
What are you talking about. Apple had the vision to let app. inventors profit from their inventions. It is sheer genius.
Well, if no one else is going to mention Alfred E. Neuman, neither am I.
:-)
That's not very nice!
Which is why I'm not mentioning it. :-)
A great civilization provides virtually unlimited opportunities for common people. They display uncommon performance and extraordinary achievement. Soon they are exceptional people. After generations, their descendants recognize their own undeserved exceptionality. Self deception sets in. The great civilization collapses for being deceived of its lost greatness.
If your son is worthless it's because he has a worthless parent who didn't guide him well.
Maybe it is time for me to take a look at iPhone SDK package I downloaded.
"Nothing's impossible if you don't know it's impossible," said John Voorhees, Owen and Finn's father
Obviously another science class dropout.
Wow, really? See, I found that to be very uplifting and inspiring.
Awesome Kid!!! I never under estimate the intellect of children..
Smart kid, but I hope he is doing other things with his life. He has the rest of his life to do grown up things, but only a few more years to be just a kid.
Inspiring story.
Let's hope he doesn't become a Republican.
If he makes too much money too early ,there is not hope. That seems to be the dividing line...mak
I think today's kids are pretty smart and capable of doing a lot more than we think; however, when his dad said, "I didn't touch a line of code," it sort of bothered me because why would a parent say that unless he were capable of coding.
But, who knows, maybe he just helped a little. Most parents don't want to teach their kids how to lie. Do they?
Believe it or not lots of kids start coding at an early age. I started with C at around 13 or so and I remember there were kids on the demo scene at the time younger than me that could blow any adult programmer out of the water.
"that could blow any adult programmer out of the water"
Fail. I worked with one of the original C/Unix gurus out of Bell Labs. NO ONE could blow him away.
Great story if it were true.
I call BS.
Get online at Apple, it's true, it's for sale. Very basic, good for the 8-11 year old set.
Funny you say that.
Unless whoever wrote this story didn't research exactly how you get an app onto the app store, something is very wrong with this story. You don't "pitch" an idea to Apple to have an app available for download. You program. You test. You submit. They test. Either thumbs up or down.
I think it's an inspiring story, but somethings off.
I know. Something is wrong. Even though I love Apple it's impossible to contact anyone who works for it! Very secretive company.
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First Posted: 07- 1-09 03:28 PM | Updated: 08- 1-09 05:12 AM