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Teenage app makers see the world through an iPhone and Android prism

You can stop worrying about the future of apps.

We’re never going to run out of them, thanks largely to a young generation of app developers who are cranking out useful, trivial, ingenious and puzzling programs the way previous generations once created dance moves, mix tapes and graffiti masterpieces.

Every generation searches for a way to make its mark; a way to show that its members know something that those who came before don’t. For the class of 2013 there is more than one form of expression, but there is also no question that one of the most powerful is app development.

"You could say the movie ‘The Social Network’ was for them what "Easy Rider" was for an earlier generation," says Milpitas High School teacher John Ribovich, who’s run across app developers in his English classes. "It was just like a way to live."

By Mike Cassidy

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