IBM touts its various products and platforms, such as Bluemix, as being able to create apps in minutes. So, either they did that and completely ripped off the US government (as they did to Queensland, AUS and many others) by charging US$47k or they don't eat their own dog food. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3525262/TSA-paid-IBM-47-000-app-randomly-told-passengers-left-right-created-developer-10-MINUTES-20.html I really doubt the ipads were part of the cost. If they were, who buys an expensive item like an ipad to run a simple few lines of code like this? Either they already had the ipads for other purposes or that was part of the big upsell (along with their new bro Apple).
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let's assume it's 10 lines of code, or whatever, 10 or 20 minutes to create. I can buy that. But you need to think about training, communication, app push, store management, descriptions, somebody had to do a contract, somebody had to be on the hook for documenting it to the gov standards, etc. So, even at 10 lines of code, once you start dealing with Gov and trying to push this puppy to 1000s of users, it quickly balloons.
In my mind, if we charged $50K for it, we made no money on it despite the fact that we tried to offshore pretty much every aforementioned item.
ANYTHING the government touches ends up being way overpriced, way too complicated, and way too underperforming. Every government agency except the military should be privatized.
This story makes no sense bro