My iOS run was fine. My main app makes about $1K a month, steady but not passive. Another has 21,000+ downloads and a 4.8 rating. I know the App Store's every corner, and I'm keeping the apps alive. I'm just not betting the next chapter on them. Three reasons, none of them "iOS is dead": Apple owns the relationship. You don't have a customer list, you have an audience Apple lets you talk to. You don't have distribution, you have a shelf Apple lets you stand on. One mis-applied revi...