Black Man sells App to Apple for $1 Billion

[killacal]

Why you trying to crush my dreams breh
I could be the next Mark berg

Fixed

 

[philmonroe]

I'll remember this when I make my first million
Trying to crush a young mans aspirations.

If that's what you took out of it

 

[concise]

The App game is serious.
All the info needed to develop apps is readily available. you just have to be willing to put in the work.
This story may inspire me to work on a few of my ideas

What if you have desire to work but no ideas?
I would have never thought there would be a need for something like hopstop since the subway maps are everywhere and they're not that hard to decipher.

 

[Sane]

If that's what you took out of it

 

[How Sway?]

What if you have desire to work but no ideas?
I would have never thought there would be a need for something like hopstop since the subway maps are everywhere and they're not that hard to decipher.

when I see some of these aps im like "people would actually pay to use that?"

 

[Sane]

What if you have desire to work but no ideas?
I would have never thought there would be a need for something like hopstop since the subway maps are everywhere and they're not that hard to decipher.

Well either you need to get creative and think of something or you need to collaborate with someone.
The idea could be something simple that you could further expand upon and make even more useful.

 

[KingFreeman]

Even if American Blacks never see a dime of that money go towards improving our economic situation, maybe Nigeria will end up better, and eventually help other advancing nations compete on a higher stage. Still #blackexcellence

 

[Poitier]

I am this is cool and all for him, but how does this help me or other black people? Not blaming him at all, I maybe would have done the same thing. But not enough for me to 5 star this thread. Once again a black man's advancement and innovation ends up in the hands of white folks. But who knows, maybe hell take some of that $1 billion(I doubt he really gets all) and invest it in the meliniod community and black made apps.

Again, not blaming him

Black people have never had trouble building individual wealth under capitalism.

This is yet another example of why we cannot build communal wealth under capitalism.

Salute to the breh on his personal achievement though

 

[BrothaZay]

idgaf fucc him shout out to $teve Jobs and em the nikkas who really buying this nikkas ap for a billy liek its nun

 

[Flash Thunderton]

Yall ass nikkas still think the Internet has no impact?

 

[concise]

when I see some of these aps im like "people would actually pay to use that?"

Maybe Jiggaman had a point about dumbing down to double the dollars.

 

[unit321]

...In a historic move, HopStop was sold to Apple Inc., for what some analysts estimate to be $1 billion (Echeruo is not at liberty to reveal details of the acquisition due to a non-disclosure agreement). HopStops’s acquisition by Apple helps to bolster the hardware company’s software mapping tools. There is not doubt that Apple paid a large sum for HopStop, says Jim Thatcher, a researcher who specializes in mobile mapping technology at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts. “There is a gold rush for mapping apps like it.”...

He was a hedge fund manager, not just any old dude. Dude had smarts and developed something that had a certain level of complexity.
I hope this story doesn't give false dreams to folks thinking they can create a "cat" wallpaper/screensaver app and make billions.

 

[philmonroe]

 

[↓R↑LYB]

The App game is serious.
All the info needed to develop apps is readily available. you just have to be willing to put in the work.
This story may inspire me to work on a few of my ideas

What kinda app we talking

 

[Mowgli]