"App" as in "applicaton". We used to call 'em programs, now they are "apps". NHPR did a 3 or four part series on the app business. A fair number of small companies that write apps have sprung up in New Hampshire. They are apparently doing well. As an old software guy, I listened to the whole thing, just to see what going down. NHPR skipped over the business model, like who buys apps (as opposed to downloading free ones), owner ship of the completed app, startup money. Also no talk about software development tools, compilers, loaders, libraries, like can you just buy them, or do you have to sign non disclosure agreements to keep every thing in the smart phone secret from hackers?
Last installment talked about education, a computer science degree from UNH is pretty much mandatory to get into the app writing business. Then NHPR revealed the great challenge to the educators, namely getting more girls to major in computer science. It's just terrible, the computer science major is only 10% female. Must be someone's fault. NHPR put more passion into the gender equality bit than anything else in the series.
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that boys are deeper in love with computer games than girls. A major leading to a career in computer games is just naturally going to be more attractive to boys than to girls.
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