(2014-07-15) Indie Mobile App Devs Not Flourishing

Mark Bernstein [picks](http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul14/The Mobile Software Disaster.html) up the thread started by Brent Simmons exploring whether Micro ISV Mobile app devs are able to Make Money. It turns out, just about nobody is... It’s clear that mobile apps have the ability to make people smile, to make people think, to make people get more stuff done., to let people do things they couldn’t do without them. Making software is productive: it creates value for lots of people. We need to be able to capture some of that value, or people will stop making software... Things aren’t that bad in the desktop world. Hardly anyone is doing great – we’re in the midst of the Great Recession here – but a bunch of us are somewhere between “scraping by” and “I can’t complain.” I’d thought things were far rosier on the mobile side of the fence. Looks like I was mistaken.

This reminds me of the MicroConf audience shift from B2C to B2B.