If you want to make great/lucrative aps, how hard is the programming compared to other sorts of programming?
I think that is Paul Graham's point, that a new field may be easier than an old field, especially that it has problems that are easily solved.
But that article is a couple years old and mobile apps are much more mature. It is much more difficult to achieve the standard of polish now than then, although much of that difficulty is not about programming.
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