Buy More Apps | Outside Xcode: “And just like the friend who explains how good, proper coffee tastes, and that it’s worth the effort… From time to time tell your friends and family that developers put a lot of effort into building well designed apps – and that quality is worth paying for.”
(Via. Outside Xcode)
Exactly. It seems like a small thing, but just talking amongst your friends and family about what goes into developing a great app, just reminding yourself that this is craftsmanship and that it should be valued, goes a long way to bolstering public opinion about software and its inherent worth to the greater community. Educating the public, selling your skills to the uninitiated, is part of your job as a software engineer or designer. If you’re not willing to be an evangelist for yourself and your craft, why are you in the software business?
You have to believe in the value of what you do enough to not be uncomfortable telling others about it. Every small businessperson is in Sales, whether he or she wants to be or not.
Many great points here by Gavin Hope, reacting to my Loren Brichter article from last week. I love that my little piece is echoing around the web a little, getting even more people to talk about this topic, keeping the conversation going. And I get to discover some new voices I hadn’t discovered yet.
I’d recommend checking out the rest of Gavin’s blog. Some really good stuff there.
