I would agree with that line of thinking. I am a company in this day and age I would prefer to stick to my core competencies instead of custom building applications. Especially mission critical apps. I would rather patch an application vs. maintaining the source code and worrying about compatibility issues with OS, IDE, and hardware.
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Kim - What are the reasons why vendors wouldn't provide a source of information on which apps exist? That source would also help users find apps, which wouuld benefit vendors. What am I missing?
It would be good if there was one source to check which apps already exist, but of course there are good commercial reasons the main vendors don't provide one.
The generally agreed wisdom idle that there is no need to re-invent the wheel. So, yes, I agree that app developers need to check that an app does not exist that can cater for the function required before plunging into developing another alternative app.
@Usman, 7K flashlight apps? That is crazy, but when you think about the different devices and their uses I can see why there are so many. But that is still alot.
I am not against developing something that already exist. It gives consumers a choice. But having thousands really dosnt make sense and that too for something small like flashlight.
I was reading an article (sorry dnt remeber which site) and the author said there are more than seven thousand apps for just flashlight in google appstore.
@Usman - I would take it back to the early to mid 90s when I worked for a couple of manufacturing companies when client-server applications were all the rage. We were building PowerBuilder applications to track inventory, financials, shop floor production, expense reports everything under the sun. Back then it was more out of neccessity because the products on the market were too expensive, not mature enough or didn't have flexibility to meet the business need without a heavy customizations. That's in sharp contrast to today where CRM systems can meet nearly all of the business needs from craddle-to-grave with a few exceptions and cloud solutions has taken it to another level all together.
There are hundreds of apps for most of the part same problem/thing and in many cases literally thousands of them. This statement is specially true for well established app stores like those of apple and android.
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