Apps. Specifically, mobile apps. Last year, 10 million were sold to users of iPhone, Android, WebOS and the like. This year's projection is more than 25 million!
In the beginning of the PC boom of the late 80s and early 90s, there was a rush for developers to write shareware apps. At first, there was money to be made. Then only a few were able to ride that wealth-making wave as tons of developers and programs flooded the market.
The world has become very much globalized since then. More countries have adopted variations of the free-market. The software world now has a couple billion more programmers with the addition of India, China and Russia to the playing field. So what about you, my fellow American? Are you and I about to missing another opportunity because of our previous obligations of time, family and money? Or will we spend the several hundred hours to come up to speed on a variety of cell-phone operating systems, programming languages, and bureaucratic workings government and app-stores to get our world-changing creations converted into cold, hard cash (some of which, we might be able to keep)?
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