Re: Canon Celebrates Production of 90 Million EOS Series Cameras and 130 Million Interchangeable EF
Jopa said:
okaro said:
For the comparison Apple sells some 200 million iPhones annually. In total some 220 million IL-cameras were sold in 1987-2016. Of those 71 % were digital. I doubt many people change bodies. In 2011-2013 huge number of bodies were sold as the prices had dropped to reasonable levels. Few have updates those as the sales dropped.
This is nuts. Why people need so many phones?
Phones are much more useful than cameras. They can be used for vidoe and voice calls, messaging, email, browsing, music, video. word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, photo editing, photo sharing, dating etc.
In 2016 overall, smartphone sales to end users totaled
nearly 1.5 billion units, an increase of 5 percent from 2015.
A lot of end users receive their phones through 1/2/3 year cellphone contracts with their carrier.
For iPhone, carriers have the largest share,
at 77% in the twelve months ending September 2017.
Apple Has Sold
1.2 Billion iPhones Over the Past 10 Years.
Of which an estimated
total iPhone installed base hit 715 million, including 228 million of second-hand devices, in December 2016, with year-on-year growth of 20%.
So smartphones with camera improvements is "pushed" as a bundled feature to end users rather than "pulled" by end users when we buy a compact, dSLR or mirrorless.
For consumers (aka non-working photogs) with extra money probably buy one IL-camera with one lens and keep it until it becomes unserviceable at which point they make a choice to buy another IL-camera, compact or stick with smartphone.
For us whose passion or profession is photography we find smartphones and even compacts too limiting in our field of interest.
Press news agencies like EPA or Reuters upgrade on a cycle as a competitive advantage mirroring the release of the latest and greatest from Canon & Nikon. I'm sure other photography businesses follow this business practice so long as revenue supports it.
I was able to buy a brand new
Android One smartphone for the equivalent of USD50.00 with sales tax. For that amount I'd only be able to buy a memory card.