I'm naive but curious and I do not want to make guesses.
I wonder how are we going to preserve knowledge about programming from first principles if, under pressure from corporations and lazy peers, no one does it anymore?
There are also a lot more of this 'poking' jobs when compared to first principle coding jobs. Specially for someone like me who never worked for huge corporations.
If you like videogames, learn some OpenGL ES, apply to mobile game development position, if you’ll like the area, you’ll be able to continue career developing games for other platforms. If you’d like to move to MS stack, learn some .NET, then look for Xamarin iOS jobs, you’ll be able to continue career developing .NET for Windows. If you enjoy hacking, seek a job in a company that makes UI test automation tools for iOS, or iOS-related security software.
You already have experience dealing with all those iOS weirdness, you might be able to minimize or even negate that pay cut.