> If my repurposed web skills are good enough to build 80% of the apps people want why would I start from scratch with a completely new and native stack?
Supply and demand.
Doing the easy and/or thing everyone else is doing means there is ton of supply, will the demand support it? Will the demand still be there when it's commoditized and outsourced / offshored.
Doing the hard and/or thing few other people doing means there is limited supply, will the demand be enough to support decent ROI?
That is why learning ObjC / proper mobile development might be worth it. Not saying it is, you'd have to evaluate supply and demand to figure out.
This cuts both ways though. Even today there are a lot more openings for JS people than Obj-C or Android. Either or both of the latter might be confined to a niche in five years but "HTML5" is clearly here to stay.
Supply and demand.
Doing the easy and/or thing everyone else is doing means there is ton of supply, will the demand support it? Will the demand still be there when it's commoditized and outsourced / offshored.
Doing the hard and/or thing few other people doing means there is limited supply, will the demand be enough to support decent ROI?
That is why learning ObjC / proper mobile development might be worth it. Not saying it is, you'd have to evaluate supply and demand to figure out.