I have a very original idea. I'm deathly afraid of it being stolen. So much so, that I decided to learn to program in a language in which I am completely unfamiliar. LOL talk about paranoia! I don't have the disposable financial resources to pay someone to build it for me, and even if I did, my paranoia is keeping me from sharing the concept with anyone else. I am slowly ( through research, sparked by this concept), becoming less ignorant of the intellectual property laws. I am familiar with non-disclosure agreements and copyrights, and trademarks, from my former career, as a professional audio engineer and platinum record producer. Software programming is something that captured my imagination about 4 years ago, although I was exposed to it at its inception with the old Trash 80s and the "Basic" of the first apples! I have long-term goals of making intuitive educational software for kids.
My current concept involves taking and using old iPads and using them as a hardware solution for a very specific purpose. I believe the old models, being washed away by "Newer-better-faster" philosophy, is not only wasteful, but uneconomical. One of my mantras as an audio engineer was and still is:
"It's not what it is, it's what it does". In the early days you had to be creative when you were underfunded. Many things needed to serve another function when electronic options were non-existent, scarce or too expensive. With that in mind, a revelation came to me with regards to a particular way to use an old iPad to fill a niche that is currently devoid of innovation. The newest, 'Best-est" iPad, would be overkill in this situation, and also make the price-point for the product unrealistic, and unattractive to my market demographic.
I wanted to preface this, so that you could see why I'm asking these further questions.
1. If I can build it in XCode5 within the simulator ( which no doubt it can be done..probably not by me.LOL), that Apple will not let me license my creation for older hardware?
2. Or if I build it in Xcode5, that I cannot "update it to Xc7 with relative ease?
3. Would you know of anyone, or yourself, who would be interested in creating this product for me, for either a fee, or an honest to goodness split of the products property rights? Literally 50/50 im not a greedy person. I have the idea, and someone has the know how.
In order to illustrate the simplicity of this idea, without revealing it, it would be like someone asking me to program" mary had a little lamb" using only the sounds and tones from an alarm clock. Honestly, too easy , I assure you. It is the fact that no one has thought of it yet that makes this product viable, not its complexity.
That said. I am still going to follow your direction, and look for the appropriate tools! Thank you for all of your help so far. You have no idea how grateful I am!
