You have to compare it at the right level. A _developer_ who did not embrace mobile is fine, because the market _grew_ as a result of mobile. For developers, th

You have to compare it at the right level. A _developer_ who did not embrace mobile is fine, because the market _grew_ as a result of mobile. For developers, there were strictly more opportunities to branch out and find work. For _companies_ however, yes, if they failed to embrace mobile many of them absolutely were hard-passed (or lost substantial market share) compared against those who did. Just like those who failed to embrace the internet were hard passed before that. A more apt comparison might be comparing it to the arrival of IDE's and quality source control? Do you think developers (outside of niche cases) working out of text editors and rsyncing code to production are able to find jobs as easily as those who are well versed in using e.g. a modern language tooling + Github in a team environment? Because I've directly seen many such developers being turned down by screening and interviews; I've seen companies shed talent when they refused to embrace git while clinging to SVN and slow deployment processes; said talent would go on to join companies that were later IPOing in the same space for a billion+ while their former colleagues were laid off. To me it feels quite similar to those moments.