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Want to build a mobile app? Here's how to convince the CFO | Mobile | silicon.com
In the third part of this silicon.com feature on the business of mobile apps we look at the costs associated with building apps, consider paid apps versus free apps - and throw in some tips on creating a successful app. The cost of building an app Costs will be proportional to the scale of your ambition - the more bells and whistles you want your app to have, the more you should be prepared to stump up. A Forrester report last year set the price of a no-frills app at a minimum of $20,000 - and reckoned a more sophisticated app could set you back up to $150,000. And, according to Forrester analyst Neil Strother, it looks as if costs have, if anything, gone up a bit since then - perhaps owing to the development of more sophisticated apps but also increasing demand for the services of app developers.Grapple Mobile | What We Do - Creating apps on multiple handsets
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This app enables users to check daily Messiah College news and sports scores, schedule a campus visit, explore the department directory, and best of all, navigate your way around campus with a 3D campus map using location based data, allowing you to easily find any building on campus. The app will soon be available on the App Store.Mobile Distillery: Business Goes Mobile - We Make It Happen
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IBM says the mobile market is around $250B and is looking to grab a part of the pie. With mobile fast becoming the new hotness in technology IBM’s Software Group went to great pains last week to make sure press and analysts heard how IBM’s software offerings were already helping companies tool up in the space. There were road-maps and early looks at future offerings as well. Tied in with the opening of their new Littleton, MA lab (with an appearance and ribbon-cutting from Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick ), IBM painted a picture of a mobile space full of cross-platform complexity, carriers with their feet to the fire to innovate business models, and an inevitable demand from consumers and businesses to go mobile. The plan, IBM’s Steve Mills said in the opening overview, is not to get in the handset/device business, but to provide the software needed to create mobile applications, run backends for mobile services, and then manage those services:
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