Does it make sense to specialize in mobile development?

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vitom2013-10-01 18:50:12

Mobile development

vitom, 2013-10-01 18:50:12

I am 23. I am trying to choose my field in IT. At the university there was a course on Android development and I wrote a game and a couple of other apps in my free time.

After graduating from university and getting a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, I'm trying to determine the area that I like and also has prospects.
I sort through:
- mobile development
- web backend or web frontend
- 3D

Now there is a very large demand for mobile phone programmers, but something tells me that this "fashion" will pass soon. There will be new types of devices with more convenient input methods. Does it make sense to start specializing in app development now? Go to work on iOS or Android and grow in these areas by gaining experience and earning good money. Or is it better to go to the web direction?

I ask for advice from a respected habra community

Thank you in advance

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Maxim, 2013-10-01
@might

You need to go there, which is closer, to which the soul lies.
ps none of this list:

— mobile development
— web backend or web frontend
— 3D

will be relevant for a very long time.

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Maxim, 2013-10-01
@might

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I originally wrote “nothing from this list ... will cease to be relevant for a very long time”, then I wanted to change it to “everything listed below ... will be relevant for a very long time”, I replaced one part of the sentence, and forgot to correct the second)

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dutchakdev, 2013-10-01
@dutchakdev

Definitely worth it!

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victorv, 2013-10-02
@victorv

gaining experience and earning good money

This happens very rarely, and if it does, then it is a great success. More often in this phrase it is necessary to put not “and”, but “or”.
Actually before you, first of all, there is a choice not on classes of solutions (mobile, client, server,...), but on ecosystems (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle,...). Each of these monsters has its own set of interrelated technologies, tools, services (services) that lure and draw in developers and their organizations. It is better for you, as a young specialist, not to be scattered, to make a choice in favor of one particular ecosystem, while remembering “do not create an idol for yourself” ...

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he11c0de, 2013-10-01
@he11c0de

In my opinion, mobile is a good choice, besides, you just graduated from high school, and experience is a must. In mobile, as in the web, it's relatively easy to get a job. Working with Android, gain experience in Java, and then you can move into enterprise development.
And besides, you are young, and jumping from technology to technology is a piece of cake.

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codecity, 2013-10-01
@codecity

but something tells me that this "fashion" will pass soon

Well, do you still need a device in your pocket? Neither a tablet nor a laptop will replace it.
So that fashion does not pass, corporations will inject money into PR. And believe me, they are very good at it. They know how to generate in the human neural system a passionate desire for even those things that you don’t need.