Wouldn’t it be cool if…

I wonder how many of the applications we use today, either on the computer or our iPhone / iPod Touch, came to be with those five simple words.

Wouldn’t it be cool if I could type something on my iPhone, the screen would go black, and the letters, in white, would display on the screen in big letters?

On August 6, around 10:00 PM, that was the idea that struck me. Why can’t I type something on the iPhone, hold it up, and someone across the room could read what I wrote?

The concept is so simple, yet after a visit to the App Store in iTunes, I noticed that no one else had come up with the idea yet. How odd. So, over the next hour, I used Pages on my Macbook Pro and wrote an outline, with pictures, to demonstrate how the iPhone app would work.

I named the app Big Words, because that’s what the app does: makes big words on your iPhone / iPod Touch!

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