Technology for non-technologists
Mashable discusses a trend that we’ve been seeing since we started Corona, citing the mobile development experience of Robert Nay, author of the #1 iOS app Bubble Ball:
He’s a pioneering user of the next generation of platform dependencies — innovations upon which further innovations can be built.
Eventually, you won’t need to have any technical knowledge in a world increasingly defined by technology.
Rather, the only thing you will need to have is an idea, and having good ones will be the only meaningful thing setting you apart from others. I like to think of it as the triumph of creativity over learned skill.
Couldn’t express the Corona SDK value proposition better myself!
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The article is great exposure for Corona, and I agree with the sentiment that it’s a “good thing” when technology makes technical skill less necessary, but there’s some glaring factual inaccuracy in the article. For example:
“Nay used an application called Corona that essentially allows users to build smartphone apps using a graphical interface, eliminating the need of any coding skills.”
Obviously anyone using Corona would know how wrong that statement is. And thus, stating that Nay has “no skills. Nada. Zip.” is an insult to the technical skill Nay possesses.
Perhaps the article’s author, having never actually taken a look at Corona, simply couldn’t believe a 14-year-old could bring an app from idea to iTunes without some kind of magical “graphical interface” doing all the work.
I was looking around for the “like” button on that comment.