[mildbow]

Based on your answers, I recommend offering to do the iphone app as a contractor. Exactly how much you charge depends on how much of the 3 areas you have to work on (design, iphone app dev, backend dev). Just off the cuff, I would say don't do it for less than 50k.

Why?

- You can have an actual "trial work" period so you can see if the environment will be poisonous/you can't work for them fulltime. This is a big one since you mention the relationship might be poisoned already.

- You will be signing up just for delivering the app so there is less stress on you.

- You can get your 100k for 1-3months of work rather than 1 year :)

Contracting you should make more sense for them too: they have a trial period with you and a potential full-time first hire if all goes well. This is something they wouldn't have if they went with an iphone app dev shop.

[TheM00se]

Remember that you could also charge them a changing fee if they suddenly want to change the UI, and since your a contractor thats money they'd have to pony up extra. If your fulltime, they would feel like they could pressure you into doing it quickly