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This partial transcript of the App Fairy podcast has been edited for length and clarity. Please  visit appfairy.org for more information about Sago Mini. Carissa Christner: Hello and welcome to the App Fairy podcast. My name is Carissa Christner. I’m very excited to have an interview today with Sago Mini, one of my favorite app developers. They’re a company with exceptional apps for very young users—even kids as young as two and three years old. If a family is looking for recommendations of…

My kids and I recently downloaded a game for all three of our smartphones. Ever since, competition in the house has been fierce. The game is called Forest and the premise is simple. You plant trees to grow a forest. But trees only grow when Forest is the only app running. If you switch to another game, reply to a text, or check social media, the tree dies. Choose a seed, set the timer, and wait.  Longer sessions grow bigger trees.…

April 2010 Over a year ago, we began to notice something we couldn’t ignore.  We noticed it in grocery stores and on the subway.  We noticed it at shopping malls and in coffee shops.  What we noticed was children – even very young children – playing on devices that weren’t specifically designed for them.  The iPhone and iPod Touch revolution had hit the masses – and seemed to be including children as young as 3.  While it felt counterintuitive that…