Android App Inventor Democratizes App Creation, May Flood Market With Crap
For all the chatter regarding the great democratizing power of the internet – its capacity to enable a generation of thinkers of creators to produce amazing things – a simple problem has kept the creation of applications limited to small number of people. To make computer-y things, you need to, like, know stuff. Well no more, internet! No more! Today, Google announced public invitations to its App Inventor for Android, an application that will allow those with almost no programming knowledge to create their own apps for the Android market. Using a simple graphical interface, users can choose…