The death of point-and-shoot cameras

As more and more young people use their smart phones as cameras and more and more old film users are dieing off I can see a day when the whole concept of the point-and-shoot camera is gone. Ever since the original Kodak Brownie there has been a huge market for compact, easy to use cameras. But in the past few years that market sector has been taken over by phones.

I've been fairly good at predicting the changes in the camera world and I'm very confident in this prediction: sooner, rather than later, smart phones will be the dominant camera used by most families. Yes, there will still be a huge market for medium and high end digital cameras but the low end will virtually disappear.