Future of Mobile Development

The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store

When the iPhone first landed in my hands around 2009, it felt like the world shifted under our feet. Sure, the first iPhone launched in 2007 and Android soon after, but I was still among the early wave getting my hands on these devices. As a soon-to-graduate CS student, I had expected to start a generalist software engineering career, which I did with my first internship, but the mobile craze hit right as I was entering the industry. I was at the right place at the right time, and I made the switch almost immediately.