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You haven't been in mobile long then.
by ethank 15y ago
You haven't been in mobile long then.
- 5hoom 15y agoSpot on. There was barely an indie developer scene for mobile before the iphone.
- ethank 15y agoI had worked for a company that spent 1 million dollars to make a J2ME game. It never even came out.
- unalone 15y agoOoh. Is this a story you can tell? I'd like to hear more about this.
- ethank 15y agoNot much to tell. The cost was because of testing, but by the time the app actually ran, the band wasn't interested anymore and people's interest in handset games was waning.
- unalone 15y agoHow did testing end up costing a million dollars? Forgive my naiveté.
- ethank 15y agoTesting and development cost so much because it had to work on 60 phone models and in most cases required rewrites and compiles from device to device. This is also the reason most efforts on "artist apps" are for iOS. Fragmentation hurts!