Software developers like to brag about being early adopters, often telling people they were designing mobile apps at the dawn of Apple’s App Store. Ken Morse has them beat by a decade.
The CEO of
Ilium Software has been designing the early ancestors of mobile apps for the Windows platform since the 1990s.
“We started in 1997 doing apps for what was called Windows CE,” Morse says. “Over the years that morphed into Windows mobile. ... Back in those days the devices were PDAs. Then over time they took PDAs and added phone hardware to it. They they started putting the PDA into the phones.”
The Ann Arbor-based mobile app company now employs seven employees and handful of independent contractors after hiring one person over the last year. It has been doing a lot of work for the Andriod platform in recent years, riding the wave of increased usership of Andriod phones.
“It has been a real interesting 16 years to see how the technology evolved,” Morse says.
Source: Ken Morse, CEO of Ilium Software
Writer: Jon Zemke
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