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Re:Rarest language? Objective-C has highest job posting to d... by bitcracker on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:18PM (#3448493)
> And make $250/hr contract rates. There is ludicrous demand for iOS work.

I don't buy this. Any links?

How many developers can expect such rates in face of more than 250,000 apps in competition? I think only some big publishing houses would pay this big money because in the long run they would get their money back.

Smaller companies would never pay this rate because AFAIK the average income for even very good apps is the range of some thousands or some ten thousand dollars. In case of say 10.000 dollars, all the money would be lost to the developer for just 40 hours of work, that's four days :-)

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Re:Rarest language? Objective-C has highest job posting to d... by MatthewPhillips on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:21PM (#3448519)
Consulting work for enterprise companies. They aren't selling their app anyways, it's just a checkbox their sales people use to sell the real product.
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Re:Rarest language? Objective-C has highest job posting to d... by frankdenbow on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:42PM (#3448619)
I know people making $200/hour for iOS work
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