For those that can read Chinese and have Chinese rendering on the computer, the subject line read "Are you for real?" or "Are you serious?"
What happened was this, I had spent the entire afternoon trying to move ahead w/ my mobile dev. Unfortunately, the big @ppLe was so kind I had to download a 1.4G patch to the operating system - 10.7.3. 3 hours. Then I had to do an App$tore download for Xc0de, the development software specifically for mobile @pps. The pic below showed a download speed comparison of the download speed. Initially, I was directed by the developer program webpage to the infamous AppStore to download it. OK. Fine, I'll play along. After the customary redirection and all… I had the blue "Free" download button. Clicked. Then I noticed… what? 2 days 25 hours? Then the indicator slowly dropped to 1 day 20 hours as shown. No way!!! I was downloading at less than 10Kbps!!! Holly sh!T. So I hunted around in the developer website. Lo and behold, there was the same download. I clicked it to download. 3 hours! What the f^()()&*&nk!
Now, I have to relearn everything from scratch yet again! Apparently, the nice white half eaten apple had decided to changed the delivery mechanism of the developer tool. Keep this up, everyone will be spending 1/2 of the valuable time just to manage the tool rather than spending time developing Apps. No wonder, during conference last year in HKG one of the IT consulting firm said developing an App took over six months and costed the client about a mill. I can believe it.
The real cost of developing one is about USD 25,000 to 30,000. One might get away in China for much cheaper but the quality, well… So how many of the 0.99 or 1.99 and 2.99 you have to charge in order to make a living? Plus, the nice white bitten apple takes a 30% cut on the sale. Don't think we need a MBA to do a P&L and cost benefit analysis.
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