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→The rise of the app has massively altered the public perception of what a software programmer is. It’s turned a generation of geeks from social misfits into superheroes. Mention to someone that you make iPhone apps and their interest will pick up instantly. They may even ask if you’re a millionaire. This is an astonishing change from what a programmer in the 80s could have expected in reaction to their job description. We now live in an age where companies like Tapulous can, apparently without irony, run a job ad that reads, “We are hiring rock-star developers.” Amazingly, if you visit a modern development studio, you may find that the workers are treated a bit like rock stars. The demand for good programmers has never been greater and this is reflected in the perks being offered to entice them to new start-ups.

→In this book you’re also going to meet the underdogs. The broken-hearted, the failures, and the disasters.

→In this book, you’ll going to meet the rich, famous, and eccentric of the app development world. This unlikely band of dreamers includes the two brothers from Croatia who have sold over 10 million copies of Doodle Jump. The husband and wife team from Washington DC who made a fortune with their $1.99 app, Harbor Master. The studio behind Angry Birds, whose blockbuster app now looks likely to become a Hollywood feature film. And the makers of Pocket God and other smash-hit apps. You’ll hear directly from these visionaries and learn their secrets first-hand. It’s a weird and wonderful land where bedroom coders turn into millionaires overnight. Where teenaged code-monkeys flirt with venture capital and the good die young, iPhones in hand.