You should read the forum more carefully.As I've repeatedly said, smartphones have been adopted by people who don't care about image quality, that does not mean that professionals, pro summers and hobbyists are also abandoning DSLRs and high end point and shoot cameras.
See! He's adopted smartphone cameras without even thinking they could produce art. And he uses them frequently! Smartphones are good for many things, we can't know if people buy them because or inspite of their camera quality. But standalone cameras are good for only one thing and their sales dropped by 40% in 2013 alone. Two-fifth of the market gone and every single one of them had a bigger camera sensor and better optics than an iPhone. People who don't care includes an awful lot of people. But even people who do care and previously bought DSLRs feel themselves dragged in by the utility of the smartphone. They may hate it, but they can't escape it. Whenever there is competition between a multi-purpose computing device and a single-purpose electronic device the smart thing always wins.I use my smartphone camera frequently. But it does not produce what I consider to be something I would call art. Yet, I have multiple shots that I have produced and processed on my walls from other types of camera.
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Because that's the segment of the market most different from smartphone cameras, where every manufacturer is heading in hope for survival.Except that mirrorless and DSLR sales have recovered from the second half of 2014 through 2015.
I'm still not sure I understand the "DSLRs are too complicated" argument.

If you need to explain it, it already has too many buttons.

Which doesn't make them computers (smart devices).DSLRs are also becoming smarter, adding GPS, WiFi, and touchscreens.
I never said people don't want DSLR-like capabilities and qualities, they just can't have them, because they don't fit in a smartphone. And people will happily (or not so happily) settle for less.You still haven't addressed the argument that smartphones can't compete with DSLRs in terms of flexibility except by the argument that "people don't want that" which is blatantly false.
I don't know what you're talking about? This technobabble means nothing to me. I speak computer hardware and I can tell you exactly why all the powerful nice stuff in a MacBook Pro won't stop the iPhone from winning out personal computing.I'd like to see you address that topic with something more than "smartphones = future" over and over. At least if I want to take a 12mm wide, 30 second exposure at 3200ISO and f8 or use a 35mm f1.4 lens to get an ultra thin focal plan on a face I can, unlike on smartphone.
No. You're thinking about iPads.Also, aren't smartphone sales in decline?