You're cherry picking a small part of the industry. The carriers. For the broad mobile industry, the changes have been fundamental. Feature phones are Dead.

You're cherry picking a small part of the industry. The carriers. For the broad mobile industry, the changes have been fundamental. Feature phones are Dead. Traditional Phone Manufactures are on life support. Blackberry is dead, Nokia is losing their shirt, they are losing money. Samsung and Apple together are taking 103% of the profits in the industry. Hey, that doesn't add up? Well, because the competitors are at -3%. The app ecosystem has paid out $15B+ in revenue to developers. This is a fundamental market shift for phone application developers. These are fundamental and important shifts in the mobile industry.