The Cost of Native Mobile App Development is Too Damn High!

A value proposition

Nader Dabit
9 min readDec 14, 2016

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A tipping point has been reached. With the exception of a few unique use cases, it no longer makes sense to build and maintain your mobile applications using native frameworks and native development teams.

Average cost of employing iOS, Android, and JavaScript developers in the United States (http://www.indeed.com/salary, http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=JavaScript/Salary)

The cost of native mobile application development has been spiraling out of control for the past few years. It has become increasingly difficult for new startups without substantial funding to create native apps, MVPs and prototypes. Existing companies, who need to hold on to talent in order to iterate on existing applications or build new applications, are fighting tooth and nail with companies from all around the world and will do whatever it takes to retain the best of the best.

Cost of developing an MVP early 2015, Native vs Hybrid (Comomentum.com)

So what does this mean for all of us?

If you are a huge company or you are flush with cash, the old thinking was that as long as you threw enough money at native application development, you did not have anything to worry…

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Nader Dabit

Full Stack Product Engineer, Author, Teacher, Director of Developer Relations at Avara