For the small iOS events, think the changing/shrinking conference landscape needs to be considered alongside the changes in the iOS indie dev community the past

For the small iOS events, think the changing/shrinking conference landscape needs to be considered alongside the changes in the iOS indie dev community the past 2-3 years. Don't think iOS developers are abandoning the platform, but I do think many indie developers (or those who were considering becoming an iOS indie developer) did leave. It became a lot harder to make a living as a full-time iOS indie dev. The indie devs brought a lot of the excitement and energy to these events and made for extremely interesting and fun conferences full of people from different design, engineering, and professional backgrounds. (Context: developer evangelist-type here, once focused on iOS-related developer conferences and attended many of them in North America and Europe.)