title: How long/how much did it cost to develop iPhone SDK & App Store
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-an-iphone-application">How much does it cost to develop an iphone application?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Hope somebody can help. I have been googling trying to get an indication of how long it took apple to develop the AppStore &amp; the iPhone SDK?</p>
  
  <p>My Co. have had an idea to try and do a similar thing internally for our own apps and  massively underestimating the amount of work that will be required.</p>
  
  <p>If anybody has any idea how long Apple spent developing the SDK &amp; AppStore, links to any pages even better, I would be very grateful for the info so that I can use that for discussion about the plans.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>