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application easy and cheap to develop? Difficult and 11-16. Explain how you think Google’s purchase of Motorola
expensive? Mobility changes the opportunity for iOS apps. In the-
ory, does this purchase cause you to believe it would
11-12. Visit www.elance.com and identify five potential out- be wiser for you to develop on the Android or on the
source vendors that you could use to develop an iOS Windows 8 phone?
app. Describe criteria you would use for selecting one
of these vendors. 11-17. Search the Web for “Android developers” and related
terms. Does it appear that the process of creating an
11-13. Explain why the costs of application coding are a third Android app is easier, cheaper, or more desirable than
or less of mobile application development costs. Name creating an iOS app?
other major cost sources.
11-18. This case assumes that you have made the decision
11-14. Summarize the risks of hiring an offshore developer to develop an iOS application. Take an opposing view
to write a mobile application. Explain ways to reduce that developing a thin-client browser application
those risks. would be a better decision. Explain how you would
justify a thin-client app as a better decision.
11-15. According to the Gartner Group, by 2018, less than .01
percent of consumer mobile applications will be con- 11-19. Prepare a 1-minute summary of your experience with
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sidered a financial success by their developers. Using this exercise that you could use in a job interview to
your own knowledge and experience, explain three demonstrate innovative thinking. Give your summary
major reasons this might be so. to the rest of your class.

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11-20. Consider the following statement: “In many ways, choosing an outsource
vendor is a one-way street.” Explain what this statement means. Do you
agree with it? Why or why not? Does your answer change depending on what
systems components are being outsourced? Why or why not?

11-21. Using the dialogue that opened this chapter, as well as Figures 11-4 and
11-6, list the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing PRIDE application
development. Briefly describe each.

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