Developers, Developers, Developers
Okay, no Steve Ballmer imitation videos yet… but I was stupefied by last week’s Wall Street Journal article claiming the mobile talent pool is shallow:
The intense competition for mobile engineers, which affects large companies and fast-growing start-ups alike, is emerging as a key bottleneck as companies scramble to capitalize on the fast growth of smartphones and other mobile devices.
The technologies are so new — Apple’s app store launched in 2008 — that few software engineers have mobile development experience, which requires new coding skills compared to a desktop computer.
Really?
From where I’m standing, there’s plenty of mobile talent around the world.
It’s all of you guys — the Corona community — who continually amaze us with all the awesome apps you are putting out there. You’ve proven that literally anybody can be a mobile app developer (with the right tools of course 
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As I see it, the problem isn’t a shallow talent pool. The problem is that talent is being defined too narrowly.
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Very tight competition
. I’m currently working on some apps with corona need a mac though and go no monies.
Was working on android apps but phone not 2.2 and you guys just stopped 2.1 support i was very disappointed. May have to find another SDK unless you guys can bring back 2.1. Pretty please
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“The technologies are so new — Apple’s app store launched in 2008 — that few software engineers have mobile development experience, which requires new coding skills compared to a desktop computer.”
Say what? The implication here is that developing for a mobile environment is somehow super difficult and special. It really isn’t. Especially with Corona SDK which makes life at lot easier than having to wrap your head around Objective-C.
I think the shallow talent pool is just for iPhone developers .. exactly because Objective-C is such a tough language to wrap your mind around, and you have to develop on a costly mac.