Do-it-yourself apps: Make your own Angry Birds | The Economist

Excerpt from a snapshot of DIY app tool market dynamics

"DIY is hot. In May Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, unveiled a kit that allows people with no programming skills to create a working app within minutes. Apple, too, has applied for a patent indicating it is also building a DIY tool for iOS, its mobile operating system. And in March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a beta version of App Inventor, which allows even simpletons to make apps for Android phones."

Do-it-yourself apps: Make your own Angry Birds | The Economist