>>Good management techniques aim at reducing the skills required to bare minimums.
>>In fact, that's what I've been doing during my whole career and still do now.
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>Software development is ripe for this discipline it likes to help impose on others, while development continues to behave like an artisan cottage industry. ;-)
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>FWIW, IMHO the groundswell towards mobile apps will become an avalanche in 2018. When I busted my phone recently, I replaced it with a Note 8 whose speech to text is accurate enough not to have to peck at the screen keyboard any more. These things are ready for busy hospital doctors IMHO. And MS has done something very smart: it has produced Remote Desktop Clients for phones and other devices, meaning a Windows app now can operate on any device without the tyranny of ever-growing browser security/UI limitations and all the furiously changing multiple domain expertise needed to mount a modern cross-platform app. Ironically, many of my clients already require users to remote into the domain before accessing browser apps, to avoid any risk of exposing data to the wild. VFP developers may have the last laugh yet, with hot encapsulating products like FoxInCloud and now RDC perpetuating "legacy" apps regardless of device or OS.
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>Raised here because for mobile, buyers are conditioned to expect micropayments- if not free. The days of the artisan craftsman may be numbered...

Yeah, their days are numbered - but it's a really high number. :)

Here's what I'm curious about (and this is a serious question): the # of people who have added Fox to their proverbial arsenal in the last 10 years, and the last 5 years.

Heck, every year, there are new readers of Atlas Shrugged. :)