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It does make a couple of interesting points: 1. The cost of building an app can be calculated in the back of a napkin. The cost of a web app that works consist
by asimuvPR 10y ago
It does make a couple of interesting points:
1. The cost of building an app can be calculated in the back of a napkin. The cost of a web app that works consistently across devices? Not so much.
2. The cost of building backend services has been commoditised to a degree. Front end web development? Its downright hard finding someone that can do good front end web work.
3. The reality that big companies (silos) will push their agenda over anything else and win.
- weego 10y agoIf the idea of the cost of an android app is will it work fine on a Samsung galaxy 1 behind the current gen then sure a napkin will work. I feel like doing anything non trivial for Android with a wide target audience is not always any more reliable than the Web experience claimed in the article
- asimuvPR 10y agoAndroid definitely has issues. But its simpler than browsers. I'm not saying people should abandon browsers. Not at all. My point is that the browser gets treated poorly and web standards are simply ignored. Ultimately we end up with a web that is broken or missing.
- tdkl 10y agoWell if you know what your target audience is, you can easily go by that at first.
- tracker1 10y agoTo your second point... many companies are only paying lip service to finding someone good... I price myself out of the majority of jobs I'm approached about, and consider myself in the top few percent on front end web development (JS in general).
- asimuvPR 10y agoWhat do you mean by lip service? :)
- sportanova 10y agomy guess would be that EVERY company only hires the best
- harryf 10y ago> The cost of a web app that works consistently across devices? To me the problem is right here: why must every web app work on all devices? And why, if you build an iOS app do you have to build one for Android too? If you're a small business, getting your first 50k, 100k, 200k customers is what matters. You can do this more effectively at lower cost by focusing on just one platform / browser / environment.
- st3v3r 10y ago"To me the problem is right here: why must every web app work on all devices?" Because users want them to. If your web app doesn't work on their device, they're going to leave and use something else. The days of people being tied to their laptops is over. "And why, if you build an iOS app do you have to build one for Android too?" You don't have to, but if you want success, it's probably best to try and reach as many people as possible. And there are more Android users than iOS users.
- asimuvPR 10y agoI wish it were that easy. Sometimes you need to be in every platform to be considered by your market. Its simply sucks.
- harryf 10y ago> The cost of a web app that works consistently across devices? To me the problem is right here: why must every web app work on all devices? And why, if you build an iOS app do you have to build one for Android too? If you're a small business, getting your first 50k, 100k, 200k customers is what matters. You can do this more effectively at lower cost by focusing on just one platform / browser / environment.