On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Fred Stluka <f...@bristle.com> wrote: > Kris, > > Most of your answers on this forum are VERY helpful and VERY > accurate, but in this case I think you are wrong about what is > a reasonable expectation. > > Many large companies have entire divisions devoted to selling > "support services", "consulting services", professional services", > etc. usually at pretty high hourly rates, and mostly to large > corporate clients. See: > - http://www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices/ > - http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ > - http://www.oracle.com/products/consulting/ >
I should have qualified that more, as I knew it was blatantly wrong, one of my cousins works as a consultant for Microsoft in finance (non software development) :-). However, I haven't seen any of these companies working "one on one" with app developers, it is -- as you correctly said -- with large corporate clients. App development takes a special place: I doubt any single person has nearly enough money to make it worthwhile for any of these large firms to take bait for an indie developer (as I'm also sure that Google surely has consultants working with HTC, it's just probably not listed on their website, I'm sure if you email them and they know you, you could easily enough arrange a deal...) kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en