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Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

This is massively delusional - but I guess since the 'mobile industry' is so much 'fun', who cares?

The simple fact of the matter is that by far the majority of revenue generating content will be created with professional(read specialized), not amateur(read generalized) tools and will be consumed by professional and not amateur tools.

Ok, so nomadic high school and college students riding busses generate little revenue and spend little revenue using pirated and amateur content(and will do less in the future economy as mommy and daddy crack down on the budget) and won't buy DSLR's, game consoles where the MMI drives the devices, audio defined by the quality of the noise-cancelling headphones, phones with a voice recognition interface one can legally use in a vehicle, net/lap books/tops with a UI that allows efficient content creation, home theater systems, etc. etc. etc. These devices are quickly moving to toy status and will be cheap devices with limited service plans in line with the revenue generation and spending of their user.

Rooted workers driving vehicles that need to make money to spend money will be driven by specialization and will most of the time require multiple devices that are more than toys.