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The power of App Inventor: Democratizing possibilities for mobile applications
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in Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Education, teaching, academics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Global, History of MIT, History of science, K-12 education, Media Lab, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Online learning, Open access, Open source, Programming, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, STEM educationIn June 2007, Apple unveiled the first iPhone. But the company made a strategic decision about iPhone software: its new App Store would be a walled garden. An iPhone user wouldn’t be able to install applications that Apple itself hadn’t vetted, at least not without breaking Apple’s terms of service. That business decision, however, left…