If you're looking to get employed, sure. Earning a living by selling your own app? Better give up hope.Well that changes....nothing. If you think it's stupid to learn iOS programming for a living I've got an entire floor of 200+ coders (all earning well over $70K to start) I've got some bad news for here at work....
The point is almost every major business has an App. The app itself is not what the company relies on for income, but merely serves as an extension to get to the services this company offers.
I do agree that macOS Appstore is a dead fish thought.![]()
I'm not saying there aren't such tools. I myself develop Qt apps on a Macbook. All I'm saying is that most companies targeting multiple platforms rarely develop on a Mac."I'm counting strictly native Objective-C/Swift apps and not cross-platform apps because they aren't developed on a Mac or with Mac based tools anyway." This is another straight out lie (I say lie because you claim to have first hand knowledge). There are multiple cross platform tools for iOS/tvOS... that run on the Mac. Unity is an example of a cross platform tool running on macOS.
Anyway, I guess I should have been more clear that my comments were about learning programming within the Apple ecosystem with the intent of creating your own products and not about generally getting employed or selling consulting services.