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This 82-Year Old Masako Wakamiya is

the Oldest App Developer
June 30, 2019 - Written by Raldin Casidar
Retired banker Masako Wakamiya was frustrated by the lack of mobile

games that catered to the elderly, who have a tougher time keeping up
with the action-packed games that are popular with teens. So the 82-
year-old from Japan started taking online tutorials to learn how to write
software code.
“I didn’t see any apps for the elderly, so I decided to create my own,”
Wakamiya told Fortune.
Wakamiya, who first started using computers when she was 60-years-
old, ultimately created a game in March that is based on the Japanese
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doll festival, Hinamatsuri, a holiday that celebrates the health and well-
being of girls. And to appeal to older players, its pace is slow and its
narrator speaks slowly.
She is the oldest developer Attending

WWDC, Apple’s annual developer
conference
Wakamiya will be the oldest developer attending WWDC, Apple’s annual

developer conference that starts Monday in San Jose, Calif. Like many of
her fellow attendees, Wakamiya’s free app, called Hinadan, is available
in Apple’s App Store, and she is eager to create more.
In contrast, the youngest attendee at this’s year’s WWDC is Yuma

Soerianto, a 10-year old boy from Melbourne, Australia who started
coding at age six by following online courses on Code.org and from
Stanford University that he found on Apple iTunes U, which provides free
college courses online. In four years, he has created four apps for
Apple’s App Store, including Weather Duck, a weather app for kids.
During his nearly 20-hour journey to San Francisco for the conference,
Soerianto created another app that lets users easily calculate the sales
tax on what they’re thinking of buying.
Wakamiya and Soerianto are attending WWDC this year as part of an

Apple scholarship program that gives hundreds of free tickets to
developers worldwide who create apps for Apple devices. Apple has
been making a big effort to increase diversity at WWDC, which like most
tech conferences, has mostly attended by white and Asian males.
This year’s WWDC is the most international yet, according to Apple, and
has the most students from elementary, middle and high schools. But
the company declined to provide any numbers around the increase in
international attendees or students.
Still. Apple feels it’s making progress.
“I feel like we are really starting to making a change,” Esther Hare,

Apple’s senior director of developer marketing at Apple, said in an
interview with Fortune.
Apple CEO, Tim Cook called Wakamiya the

“world’s oldest app developer
At this era when every big tech firm employees age median roam
around at 34, Wakamiya is busy leaving ageist naysayers in the dust. In
the months since Apple CEO, Tim Cook called Wakamiya the “world’s
oldest app developer” in attendance at an annual Worldwide Developers
Conference, the Tokyo native’s spotlight has only grown.
In Wakamiya’s app, Hinadan users have to put dolls in the correct

positions – a task which is much harder than it sounds, requiring
memorization of the complex arrangements and memorizing dolls
colors.
Wakamiya said her ultimate goal of life is to come up with “other apps
that can entertain older people and help transmit to young people the
culture and traditions we old people possess”.
“Most old people have abandoned the idea of learning, but the fact that
some are starting [again] is not only good for them but for the country’s
economy,” said Wakamiya.
Wakamiya thus proves there is no end to learning a determined person

could very easily do whatever he/she want, and she being 84+ is
inspiring us the much younger generation to be determined to fulfill our

goals.
Resouces :
Fortune - This 82-Year-Old Woman Is WWDC’s Oldest Attendee
Technotifications : No age limit for Programming: Meet World’s Oldest

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7/1/2019 This 82-Year Old Masako Wakamiya is the Oldest App Developer - Raldin Casidar

This 82-Year Old Masako Wakamiya is

Retired banker Masako Wakamiya was frustrated by the lack of mobile

She is the oldest developer Attending

Wakamiya will be the oldest developer attending WWDC, Apple’s annual

In contrast, the youngest attendee at this’s year’s WWDC is Yuma

Wakamiya and Soerianto are attending WWDC this year as part of an

Still. Apple feels it’s making progress.

“I feel like we are really starting to making a change,” Esther Hare,

Apple CEO, Tim Cook called Wakamiya the

In Wakamiya’s app, Hinadan users have to put dolls in the correct

Wakamiya thus proves there is no end to learning a determined person

inspiring us the much younger generation to be determined to fulfill our

Technotifications : No age limit for Programming: Meet World’s Oldest

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