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[Yhippa]

This is really starting to sound like the dotcom era where anybody who wrote a line of HTML could say that they were a software developer.

[yapcguy → Yhippa]

It's worse.

Apparently you can take a random homeless person, give them a few lessons, and hey presto you have an app maker.

[TeMPOraL → yapcguy]

Well, 99% of apps don't do anything useful - they're either for killing time or an invention of marketing department hell-bent on selling you more of the stuff you don't need. So I'm not surprised that it's not difficult to build something that can compete in this market.