“Previous generations strapped on electric guitars and fought for superstardom in sweaty dive bars, but today’s youth boot up Xcode on their MacBook Pros,” Chris Stevens reports for CNET UK.
“The rise of the App Store and its progeny — the multi-millionaire developer, or ‘Appillionaire’ — is inspiring a new generation of indie kids to turn towards coding,” Stevens reports. “The programmer, once a few rungs above coal miner in the food-chain of cool, is now one of the most stylish and dramatically lucrative jobs in the world.”
Stevens reports, “Take the two cousins who made Angry Birds: their earnings last year eclipse those of the Rolling Stones. And consider the brothers who made Doodle Jump — having shipped over 10 million copies, they put most bands to shame.”
Read more in the full article here.
I call BS on this.
At least 99.99% of programmers jobs are deeply uncool, and they aren’t getting rich.
If more than a small percentage of programmers were cool, there wouldn’t be anything cool about it. That’s how cool works.
Yeah, most developers make little or nothing. But for those lucky ones that hit it big… wow.
——RM