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Replace the word "app" with "custom software" and you'll see how ludicrous this article sounds.

• vlokshin 14y ago
  TL;DR ad-lib with "custom software" would be: Custom Software can cost a variable of extreme prices, depending on who's building it and exactly what is wanted out of the custom software. What's so ludicrous about that? Maybe read the article and not just the title?
  • mseebach2 14y ago
    The point is that "app" means application. "What does an application cost?" - well, is it a CLI that prints the current time in the terminal? Or is it Microsoft Word? You can get a fully functional well polished fart button app for both iOS and Android made for less than $4k, but I doubt you could make something like the Facebook app on even one platform for $400k.
    • bennyg 14y ago
      Any iOS dev worth his/her salt could make a well-polished fart button app in under an hour and for less than $100. But no iOS dev worth their salt is gonna' do that.
• mtrimpe 14y ago
  What about if you replace 'custom software' with 'custom car'? Then it would sound about right again... ;)
  • netcan 14y ago
    That would defeat the whole point of the analogy which is to compare to something familiar. Nobody is familiar with buying "custom cars" Custom houses is something that people are familiar with. It's an incredibly stressful and unpredictable undertaking for most people. But compared to custom software, its nothing. A custom house might cost 20% more than what was expected. It might take twice as long. Software might cost 2000% more than expected and the end result might be nothing like what the buyer though they were going to get.