Spring is a good time to look at the BIG picture:

http://www.finnegan.com/resources/articles/articlesdetail.aspx?news=1031eb8f-a92a-4dca-9664-0e6169ae819a

excerpt below:

Huge Economic Impact

Smartphones have a huge market, which makes it worthwhile for companies to litigate and use their patent portfolios to fight for market share. Some experts estimate the smartphone market to be $50 billion to $450 billion per year in 2009–2018.1 By comparison, the IoT market is predicted to grow from nearly $2 trillion to $7 trillion in 2013–2020, dwarfing the smartphone market by an order of magnitude.2

from 2014:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2014/08/22/internet-of-things-by-the-numbers-market-estimates-and-forecasts/#1d335a972dc9

last week:

http://www.businessinsider.in/How-to-disrupt-innovate-and-monetize-in-the-Internet-of-Things-world/articleshow/51914525.cms