Article Review 6

Article Review 6

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217885/Your_next_job_Mobile_app_developer_?taxonomyId=11&pageNumber=1

This article will make you say "wow".  When we think of the modern 2012 America - we think of the high rates of unemployment, the seemingly endless amounts of local and national debt, and on the education front, we see our lovely little students with their smartphones and other devices. A quick aside - I absolutely love it when I bust a student in class with a cell phone.  Now it's true, in German class, we utilize cell phones sometimes as an instructional tool, but 95% of the time, they need to be put away.  So when we - for example - watch a video...the lights go down...the students all seem to be vibrantly engages in the German whatever we are watching.  Then, like a meteor blazing down from outer space, someone lights up like the Griswold's on Christmas Eve ("Joy to the worrrllld").  Then they wonder how I catch them with the phones and say "Wow Mr. Gravitt, you're like a cell phone Nazi!"  No.  I am no cell phone Nazi - I just notice it when all of a sudden Johnny's entire torso and face lights up as he's looking under his desk.  Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out (Ok, no offense to you rocket scientists out there - I know you're not the only ones who are "smart").  Back to the article...

When you look at an article like this and realize how many jobs  exist in the mobile app development sector, it kind of makes you sick.  I understand, as indicated in the article, that many of these jobs aren't necessarily full-time app development team positions, but even for the consultants out there - TONS OF WORK TO BE DONE!  It makes me eager to begin my journey on app development - and with some html, java and other fun coding work under my belt, I look forward to jumping in full force. 

I do believe, as the article says, that more business and organizations will be developing apps over the course of the next few years.  Not sure the mega big or super high tech companies, but smaller companies will be developing apps to help stay fresh and compete with their competitors.  I couldn't help but think of my new bank (I just switched banks - long story - and I shall not be naming the institution either).  When you see commercials on TV and online that boast (for example) the new Bank of America app, and the Schwab app, don't you wish that your bank had that too?  I sure as heck do.  I believe this is going to be a trend that we see continuing - more smaller, local entities developing apps to compete with the larger companies.  We all always want the newest, latest, and greatest "thing" to show off to our friends, or to make our life seem easier.  Can we accomplish this with locally owned businesses?  I think it sounds like a nice challenge to me.

Enough rambling for now - interesting stuff for sure.