Raphael L Burnes

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Raphael L Burnes

Raphael Burnes is the CTO at iPhone Life and an experienced developer with over 15 years of professional experience across a wide spectrum of technologies. He started building his technical skills when his brother accidentally fried their home network router by spilling a soda into it, so Raphael installed linux and learned how to configure ipchains for it. Shortly after that he earned a CCNA networking certification when he was 14, learned to write visual basic programs and created a utility app to quickly launch other programs that became popular on download.com.

Outside of work, he's spent countless hours learning to juggle (up to 7!), unicycle, and balance on his hands. He also spends a lot of time playing Minecraft and various other computer and real life games with his son.

“What is this stupid feature?” “There are people starving around the world and they are making little animated faces?”  “What a waste of time!” These are just a small sampling of the comments I heard while the new Animojis were demoed at Apple's fall iPhone announcement. Some people may agree with that, and it may look like a silly or frivolous little feature, but I think it’s an impressive demonstration of the progress technology, as well as an exciting new beginning of a whole new range of creative expression and art that we are only beginning to see.