How long will my mobile app last ?
“You mean it won’t last forever?”
When planning to have a mobile app commissioned, 除了“开发成本是多少”之外，你还需要考虑其他因素?“
That’s another article in itself.
我只想说，你需要某种战略计划来阐述为什么要开发一款应用, 你将如何营销它，以及——这是本文的重点——你的应用程序将持续多久.
“Hopefully forever”, you might think…..
BAD NEWS GOOD NEWS
That’s a bit unlikely.
Apps that are written, 上传到商店后就再也不碰了，每次都需要重写一次完整的代码 one to three years.
Let’s also factor in user churn. On average, users delete apps three months after installing them.
However, it’s a bit more complicated than that. 用户倾向于摆脱那些外观糟糕、速度慢或难以使用的应用程序. Good apps tend to stay on phones indefinitely. Obviously, 没有人会委托用户下载后不久就删除的应用程序, so with a good UX / UI design and solid development, user churn is a problem you can mitigate.
The same is also true about avoiding code rewrites.
KEEPING YOUR APP HEALTHY
With active maintenance of your app, 好消息是，您可以完全避免主要的重写. Foresight use technologies such as Firebase and Flutter, which are straightforward to maintain, have almost guaranteed availability going forward, and have no ongoing server maintenance costs.
如果你的开发人员“重构”了应用程序——维护它的各个部分来支持新功能, platform releases and to monitor technical debt, you’ll further prolong the life of your app. More about refactoring and code rewrites here.
Of course, maintenance involves ongoing cost. 顺便提一下，我们对维修费用的报价并不含糊，我们会给你一个确切的数字. 这是一个所有知名开发者都应该能够回答的问题).
Given that maintenance of an app costs, this leads us into…. “How long do I want my app to last for?”
BANGER VERSUS BRAND NEW
A good analogy here is car ownership.
你不可能没有任何事先计划就去买一辆车. Well. We hope you don’t, anyway.
与汽车不同的是，手机应用程序是不能二手购买的，但两者的概念是一样的. You don't expect a car to last forever. 你可以定期保养它，这样它可以使用更长时间，保持它的价值, 或者你可以一直开着它，直到它摔成碎片，或者在经济上无法维修.
你可能会在几年后得到一个与你的新优先事项或目标客户一致的新产品.
THE “DISPOSABLE APP”
Being developers, 我们总是建议你让你的开发团队好好维护你的应用.
Conversely, 总是有“一次性应用”的想法——确定一个市场, get an app published to take advantage of it, 乘风破浪，然后像其他人一样优雅地下沉，市场空间变得更加拥挤.
一般用户可能会在3到6个月内删除应用, in which case a "disposable app" makes sense. 这款应用原本要利用的机会消失了, the market becomes saturated, after six months to a year, it’s a case of diminishing returns.
这种情况不太可能发生(但确实会发生)，请记住, an app can always be repurposed or functionally added to.
THINK STRATEGICALLY
优秀的开发人员应该能够与你讨论所有这些问题, and, let's blow our own trumpet, we do.
Feel free contact us at www.foresightmobile.com if you'd like a chat about your app idea.
ABOUT US - FORESIGHT MOBILE
Founded in 2017, Foresight Mobile是一家端到端移动开发机构, 将您的概念转化为跨移动和web的引人入胜且强大的解决方案. We use the latest technologies across all platforms, 确保您的产品具有最佳性能.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
Product prototyping, Android / iOS / cross platform mobile app development, startup support, “CTO即服务”和下一代技术，如AR/ VR和物联网.
We provide a fully bespoke offering, 从最初的设计概念到发布的应用程序，为客户提供最物有所值的支持, fastest development and quickest ROI.
我们得到了各种规模的公司的信任，从初创企业、中小企业到家喻户晓的大公司. You can check out our Manchester based Flutter app development services here.
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