Product Marketing Blog

The language that iPhone apps are built in – Objective-C, is not an easy one to program in, even for experienced programmers.  This has been a huge barrier to entry to creating Apps for the iPhone and has created a group of highly-paid programmers.  While I like to see skills fairly compensated, it’s nice to open creation up to a wider group – making it easier for groups, individuals and small companies to also develop Apps.

This article is written by a 9th grader, who I applaud for putting his opinion out there.  It also gives us a bit of insight into the minds of the younger generation.  I personally don’t think social networks are destroying our in person socialization – I tend to socialize more in-peron now that I’ve met more people through online social networks.  And I’ve found that I’m able to continue building those relationships offline and on because we can stay in touch through social networks.  I have found that places where people can be anonymous tend to have less “socialized” behavior – sometimes with people verbally attacking each other or just generally being jerks.  That’s not something that’s unique to social networks and has been a problem since the first online bulletin board – and people seem to be less likely to do that if there’s an identity tied to them or if they’re in person.