{"id":27,"date":"2012-02-23T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triangleappshow.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:47:04","slug":"are-app-factories-worth-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/are-app-factories-worth-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Are app factories worth your time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a story on the news the other day, and at the end the section was sponsored by a local app factory.  This got me thinking.  How much value do companies get out of app factories?  Are they really just delaying the time when their developers need to get up to speed on app development?<\/p>\n<p>Is this just the same pattern of the mid &#8217;90s when companies said, we need a website, and so they outsourced it.  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