| With the wide variety of things SmartPhones can do, | | | | million downloads of their iPhone game, Doodle Jump, |
| and more possibilities being realized every day, is it any | | | | at $0.99 a copy. |
| wonder that these devices continue to lead the way in | | | | With the popularity of developing SmartPhone |
| sales for the mobile devices market? From games to | | | | applications spilling even into higher education, (Stanford, |
| keep you entertained in the dentist's waiting room, to | | | | University of California at Davis and a handful of other |
| maps and traffic alerts to get you to an appointment | | | | colleges are now incorporating SmartPhone application |
| on time, to business applications that allow you to work | | | | development into their curriculums), it is clear that the |
| on the go and everything in between, above, below, on | | | | possibilities and capabilities of SmartPhones-and the |
| the side...you get the picture-having a SmartPhone can | | | | demand for all kinds of SmartPhone applications- will |
| be akin to toting a personal assistant who can do | | | | continue to expand to every part of day-to-day life. |
| whatever you want at your beck and call in your | | | | SmartPhone users and app developers are teeming |
| pocket or purse. | | | | with great ideas for the app store. That's why |
| You've likely heard people say or thought to yourself "I | | | | developing custom applications for SmartPhones is all |
| have a new app idea" or "There should be an app for | | | | the rage these days. But not everyone has the |
| that." And you have probably heard about "iPhone app | | | | know-how to use an SDK to whip up the perfect little |
| store millionaires" - everyday people turning their | | | | app they have in mind for their SmartPhones. Here's |
| application ideas into smashing success stories. That | | | | where ingenious virtual marketplaces that connect App |
| perfect app you have in mind might just be the very | | | | Idea People and App Developers come onto the |
| thing thousands of other SmartPhone users are | | | | scene. |
| searching for. The SmartPhone application | | | | These marketplaces place the power to create the |
| development world has boasted enough success | | | | perfect SmartPhone application within everyone's |
| stories among amateur developers and small | | | | reach. They bring SmartPhone users with creative |
| businesses over the past two years to make | | | | new ideas together with expert app developers who |
| attempts to come up with the next big idea | | | | are equipped to bring those ideas to life. App Idea |
| worthwhile-and potentially very lucrative. | | | | People simply post their new app ideas and |
| Just consider Mark Carpenter, app developer turned | | | | experienced freelance App Developers bid on the |
| entrepreneur whose out-of-home business, Six Voices, | | | | opportunity to develop those ideas, and users can pick |
| has emerged from his initial development of a | | | | and choose which developer they want to work to |
| framework that channeled information from books and | | | | create their apps. These sites provide the connections |
| other media into a flash-card-like iPhone app. Now his | | | | and the terms of the app development are negotiated |
| company is partnering with publishers and media | | | | between the App Idea Person and their chosen App |
| groups to distribute information via iPhone apps using | | | | Developer. These types of meeting places are just the |
| his unique framework. And there's Lima Sky, a | | | | kind of resource that can make big time success a |
| development team of two brothers who have recently | | | | possibility for anyone and turn app ideas into reality. |
| taken the iPhone App Store by storm, pulling in over 1 | | | | |