I think you hit the nail on the head here re: people who don't try or have failed as App Store developers. I was in the App Store Day 1 of the iPad launch with

I think you hit the nail on the head here re: people who don't try or have failed as App Store developers. I was in the App Store Day 1 of the iPad launch with an iPad-specific app. It was my first shipping iOS app and I built it in about 2 weeks in the evenings after work (I already knew Obj-C.) I won't get into specifics, but it's made me thousands of dollars. Apple handles the central distribution, the payment processing, application updates, crash reports, ALL of that, and puts money into my checking account at the end of each month. What more can I possibly ask for? I have friends that are making serious money from the App Store, tens of thousands per month by themselves or split with a designer/developer friend they're working with. None of them are leaving, none of them are complaining, none of them are turning their native Obj-C apps into web apps. For everyone out there who hates the App Store because of bad publicity and articles like this, please remember that there are tons of ordinary developers out there making good money doing stuff they love. The App Store and the approval process has a TON of flaws, but all I know is it's the #1 distribution center for apps to mobile devices and it's just getting bigger. Right now there's no better way to quickly build an app and start getting paid. Ranting about everyone moving to web apps doesn't do much to change this fact.