Previous generations strapped on electric guitars and fought for superstardom in sweaty dive bars, but today's youth boot up Xcode on their MacBook Pros. The rise of the App Store and its progeny -- the multi-millionaire developer, or 'Appillionaire' -- is inspiring a new generation of indie kids to turn towards coding.
The programmer, once a few rungs above coal miner in the food-chain of cool, is now one of the most stylish and dramatically lucrative jobs in the world.
Take the two cousins who made Angry Birds: their earnings last year eclipse those of the Rolling Stones. And consider the brothers who made Doodle Jump -- having shipped over 10 million copies, they put most bands to shame.
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