Near a Mumbai slum between piles of trash and stray dogs is the entrance to MoFirst Solution Pvt. where two dozen workers sit shoulder to shoulder with no air conditioning and write for iPhone application on laptops. Akash Dongre, the Chief operating officer at MoFirst Solution where clients pay as a little as $15 an hour for a programmer. The tapping India’s next wave in outsourcing is the Mo First with thousands of programmers that charge a fraction of Silicon Valley prices to capitalize on demand for programs for Apple Inc.
Iphone and devices running Googles Inc., Android Software, the developers for hire for mobile applications may generate $5.6 billion in revenue by 2015, a 14 fold jump this year Forrester Research Inc. estimates. The India is a logical place to do it for the same reason the software and services model has worked here. The applications on Apples online store have been downloaded more than 15 billion times since its opening in 2008 with the Cupertino, California-based company getting a 30 percent cut on each sale as the urge of iPhone sales spawned demand for games and applications.
The large companies or individuals seeking to hire can turn to sites such as Elance Inc. service where the companies such as MoFirst will bid to win app-development projects lasting from a couple of weeks to several months. The India is the world’s largest recipient of the outsourcing orders, whose websites showed more than 450,000 professionals offering on their services. The request for the programmers who write code for the Apple’s iOS platform rose 20 percent in the second quarter. The demand for the programmers with the Android skills rose by 15 percent while the developer requests for Research in Motion Ltd. Blackberry devices increased by the 3 percent.
In the pricing edge, the Indian developers may have the edge in pricing. By the developers in the US, MoFirst clients in the US, the UK and middle east $15 to $20 an hour compared with the $50 to $100 charged. The applications MoFirst recently developed include Friends Aloud, is an audio Facebook feed it created for a Texas based entrepreneur and Producteev is a task management tool for a new York based clients. In 2004, MoFirst competition includes Qburst Technologies as a Web Developer in the Southern Indian town of Trivandrum. The 400 people employs may increase hiring after revenue from the websites and iPhone application jumped 76 percent to $3.18 million.
In evolving Industry, the Qburst helped to develop 150 mobile application for the customers in the United Kingdom that includes ab iPhone application for St. Albans, UK based privatefly allows users to search for an book private jets. Offering a cheaper software than in the US and Europe has worked in India before. The Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Infosys Ltd have growth form being back office service providers to Asia’s two biggest companies by market value among the providers of information technology services, this is an industry Gartner estimates that will grow 6.6 percent this year.
The Information Technology services still dominate the nations technology industry, the rise of the mobile applications developers signals Indian technology companies may be evolving. Outsourcing expand more and more because of the great benefits that it gives in the world.
REFERENCE:
http://www.allvoices.com/news/10163933-indias-next-outsource-market-converges-with-iphone-apps
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-23/india-s-next-outsource-market-converges-with-iphone-apps-tech.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-23/india-s-next-outsource-market-converges-with-iphone-apps-tech.html
