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Check out this interview with the world's oldest-known iPhone app developer

"There were no apps that old people found amusing. I decided to make a game in which old people could beat young people."

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Nikkei Asian Review has shared an interview with Masako Wakamiya.
At 84-years-old, she is thought to be the world's oldest known iPhone app developer.
She was even invited to WWDC by Apple, and Tim Cook said he found her "inspiring".


Nikkei Asian Review has shared an interview with Masako Wakamiya, who is thought to the world's oldest known iPhone app developer.

In the interview, she discussed topics including her first computer and her meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The report describes her saying:


  Masako Wakamiya obtained her first personal computer at age 58, just ahead of her retirement from a bank. Little did she know that she was beginning a journey that would make her the world's oldest known iPhone app developer, at 81.
 
  Now 84, Wakamiya calls herself an IT evangelist and encourages other seniors to use digital techno...

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