This observation may straddle other topic areas on this site.
We have just come back from a very pleasant week in SW France. As usual I took my travel kit, a Fuji X-T2 and the 18-55 and 55-200 zooms, but stuck out from the crowd. I hardly saw anyone with a camera, nearly everyone one was using a phone, or occasionally an iPad. If I was shown an image it was on a phone. It was the first time it had really hit me.
Now we have phones costing almost as much as reasonable camera, it is obvious that the multi use, portability and image sharing features of phones are big selling points. Has the tipping point been reached or passed? We who use proper cameras know well the limitations of phone cameras, but with the obvious take-up of phones as imaging devices, how long will manufacturers continue to serve us? They are not philanthropic and need profit. If the market continues to decline, how long will it be before new cameras disappear?
Yours gloomily,
Jonathan