"native app developers seems to think $50K is the smaller amount you should bill for a native app these day" Ummm, yeah, I would say $50k would cover a small n

"native app developers seems to think $50K is the smaller amount you should bill for a native app these day" Ummm, yeah, I would say $50k would cover a small native app using Parse or similar or an extremely light backend. Even a medium size native app is going to run $100-150k. That's the price of software development if it's happening in the US.