What I&#x27;m seeing in mobile developer meetups is a shift <i>toward</i> freelancing.  Basically, web development is shifting from freelancers towards tools &amp; in-house maintenance programmers.  Mobile development is shifting from startup founders to freelancers.  The startup scene is shifting from mobile to IoT (hardware), VR, and wearables.<p>In other words, the technology cycle is coming around again.  We went through the same thing in the early 2000s, as it became nearly impossible to get a non-maintenance job as a desktop software developer and the web freelance market took off (just on the heels of the dot-com bubble bursting).  Also, just as the shift in web-development from well-funded dot-coms to individual freelancers and small startups led to the &quot;Web 2.0&quot; renaissance, we might see a &quot;Mobile 2.0&quot; renaissance with a new generation of technologies (Swift, MBaaS, Dagger, RxJava&#x2F;RxCocoa) that changes how we do mobile development.<p>(I&#x27;m not sure we&#x27;ll see a &quot;Web 3.0&quot; renaissance - &quot;Desktop 1.0&quot; was the PC, CP&#x2F;M, MS-DOS, Apple Basic, etc., and &quot;Desktop 2.0&quot; was Macintosh and Win32 development, but what was supposed to be &quot;Desktop 3.0&quot; - OS X, desktop Linux, and .NET on the client - remained fairly niche specialties.  I wonder if React&#x2F;Polymer will go the same way.)