Growing Up Geek: Steven Troughton-Smith
20.05.12
A couple days before the news broke, a hacker friend of mine sent me a screenshot showing a 'Hello World' app running on his own iPhone -- it was possible! I tore the OS apart, put together my own toolchain, and set to work on reverse engineering just enough to figure out how to build an app. It stunned me how similar this was to desktop OS X; even though everything was different, it was still built in the same way, still had all the same design patterns. I already knew how to write for it! It was going to be months before I had an iPhone or iPod touch of my own, but that didn't stop me; I emailed a copy of my app to a friend in the US who would see if it ran, screenshot it, then send me the results ('remote debugging'). I would go on to build several apps and hacks for the iPhone that year (including a popular one you may know called 'Stack' ). The final puzzle piece came in 2008, when Apple announced the App Store; finally, I knew what I wanted to be -- I had a professional career in
Source: Engadget