Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace
by Avalaxy on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @10:08AM
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I guess you are right. I'm one of the (many) students who built 3 apps to get a free Nokia Lumia 800. To be honest: my apps aren't of really high quality. Why not? Well, two good reasons:
- Building 3 GOOD apps in 2~3 months is just not possible. If you really want to build quality apps, it will take more time (at least - if you're not working full-time on it... Something most people won't do because they are students and have jobs because they also need money).
- A Nokia Lumia 800 costs around $400. Let's assume the average hourly rate for a student is $30 (don't know about the numbers in the USA tbh): that's about 13 hours of work, or 4 hours of work per app.
- Building 3 GOOD apps in 2~3 months is just not possible. If you really want to build quality apps, it will take more time (at least - if you're not working full-time on it... Something most people won't do because they are students and have jobs because they also need money).
- A Nokia Lumia 800 costs around $400. Let's assume the average hourly rate for a student is $30 (don't know about the numbers in the USA tbh): that's about 13 hours of work, or 4 hours of work per app.