Actually they try to see the bigger picture in "connecting people". Phones are just their current platform of communication. I'm seeing an approaching point of

Actually they try to see the bigger picture in "connecting people". Phones are just their current platform of communication. I'm seeing an approaching point of convergence to PC's with every new generation of phones and computers. Current top-of-the-line multimedia phones and the newest pc-netbooks are quite different beasts than traditional GSM/CDMA cells and PCs. Soon netbooks and phones might be one. At that point Skype/Twitter would make more sense than call on air/SMS. See Nokia corporate history for evidence on planned abandonment.