The first thing that you will find when you start shopping around for a price for your awesome new app idea, is that there is a huge range of prices you will receive. The most recent app I costed out got quotes ranging from R 120 000 to R 880 000, just or development.
While mobile fragmentation becomes an issue at the development stage of an app, it’s during testing that the real cost of fragmentation comes to the fore. Consider, for example, that a company develops an app for three platforms, each with multiple OS versions, and intended for use on a large variety of devices, from tablets, to feature phones, smartphones and mobile kiosks. The real cost of mobile apps is spread over an app’s shelf life. Decisions made early in the development process can and will make a difference to an app’s TCO, and there are numerous strategies that can be followed to minimise costs in the long run.