For companies that do still offer dumbphones, Thomas Husson, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, doesn’t expect many of these sellers to make it – or at least keep manufacturing these devices in the long run.

Alongside precarious profit margins, there’s also the wrinkle that the technology on which these devices run will become so outdated they won’t be able to function. For instance, dumbphone users across the globe will be out of luck if the 2G and 3G networks that sustain their functionality disappear entirely. Plus, many jobs – even low-wage positions – require employees to carry phones with app capabilities. At the end of the day, there may not be enough customers to buoy even the…