Re:IPhone Game iShoot earns the Developer $600K in a month
by bd on Friday February 13, 2009 @07:06PM
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There is more info in the original Wired article. The author responded in comments:
"As for how I was broke while making a great salary working at Sun, it was primarily due to medical bills after a my family had series of emergency room visits, a couple of emergency surgeries, and we spent a year taking care of and financially supporting a mentally ill relative. Sun had also discontinued all bonuses due to the financial climate, which didn't help."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone.html#c...
> After getting off his shift as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, he worked on iShoot eight hours a day, cradling his 1-year-old son in one hand and coding with the other. He didn't have the money to buy books to learn how to write an iPhone app, so he taught himself by reading websites.
I think there's one or 2 main books on writing iPhone apps(both by OReilly) and they're like $35 at Borders(so probably cheaper online). If you're an engineer at Sun, and spending 8 hours a day on this app, how could $35 be stopping you from buying a book?