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> Each engineer is probably paid more per day than that. Except for parts of the world where that's closer to a week or months worth of pay...

• bottled_poe 6y ago
  It looks like you may be out of touch with the global market
  • ac29 6y ago
    There are substantial portions of the world where median income per household is 10000USD or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
    • dkersten 6y ago
      Do people who live there own an iphone or a macbook? If not, how are they developing for those devices?
      • solarengineer 6y ago
        They often take a bank loan to buy a Mac + iPhone for the whole office, and devs take turns working on it and programming on it. The Apple Account would be for one person ("the company").
      • mantas 6y ago
        That's where hackintoshes come in. Technically development doesn't require a physical device too. Of course, UX is likely to be kinda poor when working in simulator only. But that's how it goes.
    • mantas 6y ago
      And software developers make few times the median in such places. Source: am developer in a country you describe
• mantas 6y ago
  In those parts developers ain't paid local salaries..
• scarface74 6y ago
  And those parts of the world aren’t buying $400 iPhones (which are more expensive in developing countries) plus Macs. They are developing for Android.