Upon reading an article entitled "Apple’s app store proves lucrative for some businesses" I was enlightened to the fact that the release of the iPad has brought much business to software businesses. Because the nature of the iPad is that of various creative application, software businesses are getting creative and inventing new apps to sale to Apple. "Everybody wants to be on board with what Apple is bringing in,’ says Andrei Iancu, who teaches iPhone app development at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. ‘It is like the dot com boom when everybody became a web developer but not everybody was a good developer. This is a gold rush." The article spotlighted John Mcintosh who has created very popular applications for both the iPhone and the iPad. Mcintosh invented the app "Scratch" which he first developed for the iPhone and then later developed for the iPad. "Scratch" is a programming language that lets children create their own interactive stories, animations and other projects. According to McIntosh, it is now easier for developers to get their applicatioins available on the market through Apple.
As a future educator, this article interested me in that it illustrates how much technology is affecting our economy and therefore will affect my students. As mentioned above, Andrei Iancu is a professor at British Columbia who solely teaches iphone apps. This shows the influence of technology in our generation as well as the importance of teaching it to the students. This article encouraged me to get more familiar with the iPhone and iPad and all that it has to offer so that I can incorporate it into the classroom.
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