Finger Treadmill
D’Aloisio has been building applications for mobile phones since he was 12, creating “gimmicky games” like a program that turned a phone into a treadmill for your fingers, he said in an interview today on Bloomberg Television.
The teenager said he’d like to continue building companies after a stint at Yahoo and is particularly interested in artificial intelligence platforms, similar to Apple Inc.’s Siri.
D’Aloisio made 79 pounds ($120) from sales of his first game, “and that did motivate me a lot,” he said. His parents will keep the money from the Yahoo deal in a trust fund for him, he said, declining to comment on how much he was paid.
“I was very agnostic in terms of talking to these companies,” he said. “I wanted to do what’s right for the technology. Yahoo is going to offer us the scale.”