[bsvalley]

Mobile wasn't that hot in 2010, then in 2013 it reached its pick (companies shifting their entire businesses to mobile). Finally, in 2018 it slowed down by a lot. We've noticed a similar trend with AI lately. AI is at its pick right now. Today, companies have dedicated mobile teams that are fairly independent from the rest. They aren't connected directly to the business of a company but they still have a huge impact for sure. You'd be surprised to learn that 80% of the traffic of company X comes from mobile and that mobile team has only 10 folks in it... Very lean, versus 100 folks working on Web and infrastructure.

If you switch today it's fine, you'll get a lot of opportunities as an iOS dev assuming you're really good at it. The bar is higher than Web, usually iOS devs know their stuff pretty well and ask tricky questions. If you've only built little apps, you may have to study a lot more (more advanced topics) before applying to jobs.

If you're looking for freelance jobs only, you'll be fine as long as you're not working with technical people. You can still hack your way around and build apps that aren't really optimized. As long as it does the job.

[jamil7]

Thanks for the detailed answer, regarding the downturn in interested I guess I figured as much. It seems that it's focus has shifted to extending and supporting established products rather than being a flagship platform in itself. On the other hand the web market is absolutely saturated right now, my gut feeling was that while mobile has slowed down, it's not going away completely and there might be a viable niche there to work on while everyone's attention is so focused on web.