Smartphones killed the market for low end compact cameras, because the average consumer uses their phone instead of a shitty $200 entry level camera.
The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. You can see this in the move upmarket of things like Sony A6600 ($1400 APS-C camera) and RX100 series ($1300 compact camera) that are aimed at creators in the attention economy. I think from here on we'll see smartphone needs driving sensor development, but that doesn't mean the camera market is dead.
> The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals.
The high end stuff keeps getting better, just like every technology keeps getting better, but I don't know if it's "doing well" in the sense that overall sales of high end camera gear are increasing.
As far as I can tell, that entire market segment is shrinking. I'm not saying it's dead or even dying, but I do think it's getting smaller.
The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. You can see this in the move upmarket of things like Sony A6600 ($1400 APS-C camera) and RX100 series ($1300 compact camera) that are aimed at creators in the attention economy. I think from here on we'll see smartphone needs driving sensor development, but that doesn't mean the camera market is dead.