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Even if Google were paying support engineers $100/hr, in what universe is the average developer going to need 50 hours of support per year? In reality, it's at
by bryans 5y ago
Even if Google were paying support engineers $100/hr, in what universe is the average developer going to need 50 hours of support per year? In reality, it's at most averaging to 2 hours, and typically only in situations where Google messed up and should really be fixing it for free anyway, because it was their mistake. So, at most, it would be a labor cost of $300/yr including benefits and taxes, and more realistically that number is much closer to $100/yr.
And that's pretending they don't already make obscenely high profits per developer, and can absolutely afford to provide the necessary support for these situations, which again, are largely their mistakes to begin with.
- tempnow987 5y agoThey charge a one time fee of $25 to get a developer account. They provide full SDK / tooling and other resources for that $25 fee. I don't know what universe android app developers are living in, this is basically "free" for most significant businesses. For that $25, you are NOT going to get white glove support / treatment. Not happening.
- bryans 5y agoYou are conveniently ignoring that developers create apps which are sold in Google's marketplace, of which Google takes a minimum of 15%. They are making more per developer than $25. Please take your inflammatory nonsense elsewhere.
- account42 5y agoNot to mention that Android would be worth a lot less if there were no third-party apps for it.