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Do-it-yourself apps Make your own Angry Birds from the print edition | Business Page Do-it-yourself apps from the print edition | Business Page Do-it-yourself apps DIY is hot In May Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, unveiled a kit that allows people with no programming skills to create a working app within minutes Apple, too, has applied for a patent indicating it is also building a DIY tool for iOS, its mobile operating system And in March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a beta version of App Inventor, which allows even simpletons to make apps for Android phones Several start-ups already offer DIY app services Conduit, a firm which was valued at $1.3 billion after J.P Morgan acquired a 7% stake for $100m earlier this year, allows people to build mobile apps themselves with a simple graphical interface AppMakr, a similar service, has helped to create some 10,000 apps Users include individuals, small businesses and the Harvard Business Review AppMakr also offers its users help in bringing apps up to standard before submitting them to Apple’s picky App Store Other services publish to Android and Windows, or bypass Apple altogether by creating web apps Custom-made apps can cost $10,000 or more By contrast, DIY apps are free to create, with a subscription for continued support Prices vary, typically from about $30 to $80 a month Magmito, an app-building service that targets small and medium businesses, has a plan that costs as little as $50 a year AppMakr offers a free, ad-supported service The democratisation of technology is not without drawbacks Apple’s App Store already has some 550,000 apps Google offers 450,000 for download on its Android operating system The coming deluge of apps made by amateurs will see those numbers swell Not all will shine “There’s a lot of garbage on YouTube But once in a while you find a gem and everybody passes it around,” says Ted Iannuzzi of Magmito Professional app-makers may not be shaking in their boots just yet But the clever ones, like AppMakr, are moving from creating stuff for mobile phones to creating the stuff that creates the stuff for mobile phones App-creating software could be the machine tools of the mobile world from the print edition | Business Page