I saw the same thing and I had the same thought: Wow that is low.

My suspicion: The company is all designers and product managers, and they shipped it overseas to the lowest bidder. That is unconfirmed, though.

It's funny because I'd bet most of the people that know how to program around here could write a similar app (and likely a betterone at that) in a matter of hours if they were so inclined.

The difference being that you didn't win the contract.

That's pretty immaterial. I was just pointing towards the fact that the simplistic nature of the application in the first place only serves to further highlight the incompetence required for such a catastrophic failure.

Got it. My comment was saying, wryly, the amount of thought you put in just now was probably the maximal level of project design and thinking they did.