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Keys to your startup’s success — Delay going mobile if you can
There’s something romantic about mobile. Telling your friends, ‘I just built a new website,’ doesn’t get the same response as saying, ‘I have a mobile app.’
People put mobile on a pedestal. It’s associated with a higher level of technology.
So as startup entrepreneurs, what do we do? We put the emphasis on mobile from the start.
But why can this be dangerous? Are there ever any valid reasons why we should hold off on building a mobile app?
We’re going to answer these two questions in this article.
Why can going mobile at the beginning be dangerous?
Mobile apps are great and they serve a definite purpose. But when developing on mobile there are 3 things you have to keep in mind.
#1 Slowness to iterate
The process for pushing to the App Store or Google Play Store is slower then with web. For a while, the Google Play Store submission review process only took a few hours, but that changed in 2019.
From techcrunch.com
The company [Google] implemented a more stringent review. It then began to advise developers to plan for review times of at least three days between…
