Hi all,

I represent a China-based consultancy and we offer mobile development service for various platforms such as Symbian, iPhone, BlackBerry, J2ME, Windows Mobile, etc.

Regarding iPhone, we have a professional team who are able to turn your ideas into iPhone applications with affordable costs with their expertise. Frankly speaking, our engineers' experience may be a bit less than those who charge over $125/hour as Raven mentioned. But I believe they are surely capable to turn your ideas into applications. Our senior iPhone engineers usually have more than 3 years experience in Mac & Cocoa and just transitioned to iPhone once its SDK launched.

What people can gain from us is more than development. Our team do project management, design and quality assurance (including but not limiting to testing). Like Brian Jeremy Kupetz said, we have sound development processes involving R&D, architecture, use cases, risk management, QA, stress testing, unit testing, code reviews, version control, even change management. We continuously improve our processes to be more efficient because iPhone projects' term is usually shorter than that of regular software projects.

Also considering user experience is critical for iPhone app, we employ design expert experienced in mac to do user experience design. I believe this capability will also add much value to our service and worth our clients pay more than pure programming service.
And our team adopts 2 best practices for iPhone projects - iterative development and prototyping. We use prototype to reach agreement with clients on user experience and functionalities before we dive into concrete implementation.

Based in China, our charge rate would be very flexible. If you have a great idea but tight budget, we may be your good choice. Even though, developers here don't need to worry about the competition at all. As Raven said, the demand for iPhone developers exceeds the supply and I don't see that changing anytime soon. And we are just the few companies in China who are capable to do iPhone projects. So just take it easy.

If people here ask me why we don't develop and ship to app store by ourselves, I would say we are not marketing experts and don't understand iPhone market in US and Europe.

I hope we can work with passionate entrepreneurs to create mutual success together. I really enjoy that feeling of success. Anyone interested pls drop me an email at:ming.zhou@roylead.com
Our website is: www.roylead.com

Thanks for your patience..