Im pretty certain that a 16 yr old cannot even sign a contract, from a legal stand point. Kind of risky for them to agree to terms without concrete proof of terms.
From his earlier tweet, time is the problem. If your pockets are deep enough, perhaps you can pay him for rights to the source code and then fund a team of devs to finish it.
I would encourage those involved to do a background check on the financier as well. Current financial statements are recommended. I would also check references. Be sure and get a 50% deposit up front. This is typical and not off-base. And for the love of all that is holy be sure to have a contract in place. It protects both parties.
oftheheavens, get your checkbook out. iOS app developers aren't cheap.
I think Quasar at 9.99 a pop will be another heaver hitter. I will buy it for my ipad for sure!
Considering that it is private i did send him an email containing all the outlining details, even at 16 you can sign a contract with or without consent, but that was covered to, and I stressed the importance of including a guardian.
I DO NOT AND WILL NOT TAKE his thunder for one of the best JB apps, and I thoroughly suggest they check my backing as well. I own my business and have a very high credit score, and will even give the initial funding for quasar in full. And just a little more info I don't mind releasing, I am going for a three man team including him all to help speed the process up, but one to concentrate on nothing but fixing security holes. We would release small but nice updates regularly to make it more inticing for people to buy it, and to prevent some of the repos from keeping the most up to date versions cracked. After releasing a stable version of quasar, and a few releases we would change pace to work on the iPhone 5 multiapp release as quickly as we could while still releasing a minimum bug free low memory using app. The guys doesn't have time I am assuming because of school so 2 more dev's to help would relieve him of that burden.
As far as money was discussed I will keep that private, but it is VERY compensating to the developers more so than I, the backer. I tried the twitter thing but I don't know if has even responded cause I don't know how to check.
@TM WAZZA if you don't mind tweeting( correct terminology?) him to ensure he got the email and ask for him to reply so we can iron the details that would be great for all of us that want quasar and I would appreciated it. Anyone for that matter, if you ask him to mention your name, whomever gets him to contact me via email finneymc at gmail dot ..com I will gladly get you a free initial release copy of quasar should we form a contract.
After getting ios6 for quasar and multiapp for the 5 we would try out best to get the both running on older platforms that handle them.
So without revealing to much of what I am after in backing this young man and hopefully two other dev's like saurik which I emailed. I hope to get this financed, released and the developers well compensated, as well as myself being fairly compensated, and bringing two amazing apps that seem to be some of the most wanted apps not release.
Thanks,
Oftheheavens