Not too hot on iPhone’s own built in Apple calendar, Adam Kirk, a University of Utah student taking up Computer Science, on a trip home from a family camping excursion, toiled and twisted in his mind a new iPhone app that would revolutionize the iPhone calendar setup. Now commercially marketed on the iPhone Store as Calvetica, it currently ranks as number eleven on the “productivity” store department last Sunday. This is in no small part made by the complimentary and very encouraging review at macworld.com, the MacWorld online site.
Immediately swamped with patchy customer comments and reviews, Kirk is turning night into day to be able to answer all the queries and make the necessary adjustments based on public clamor. Many applaud the innovations of Calvetica but of course there will be those who can never be pleased with anything at all and are asking for their money back. Still many have things to impart on propositions for enhancements and further development and these are all welcome to the twenty four year old app developer. And he is working double time not only to make users satisfied but also to quench his thirst for excellence and perfection.
And to make matters triple in difficulty, he is about to go back to regular school classes on Monday and the challenge of toggling between school and work and if he will be able to cope with it still remains to be seen. He started out attending an app development class and later on came up with an app that allowed easy adding of events to a scheduling program, but that app did not catch fire then since the old iPhone had limitations on its OS. In the advent of the iOS4, Kirk was ready with the app and with the assistance of designer Rob Foster (he took care of the interface designs) and Apple, the iPhone app Calvetica was made and launched.
Currently, Kirk estimates that only a third of iPhone users are able to employ his app but iOS4 is slowly gaining popularity and pretty soon Calvetica will be heavily downloaded. Kirk gets a dollar for every app sold so you can get a picture of how much he earns a day, in the vicinity of five hundred dollars.
All praises for Kirk, Foster sees a brighter future for the lad stating that “he responds quickly to his customers’ ideas and criticisms”. Sensing that each individual uses the calendar in a totally unique manner, they compiled all the suggestions and ideas and tried to sum them all up and squeeze them into the iPhone calendar app.
Kirk is all positive about everything saying that even if the app did not sell, everything is one great experience for him. At five hundred a day, I can afford to say that as well.
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