I am going to reserve judgement on your sincerity but I will write this one last response as if you are and will try to spell it out more directly.

I still contend that I specifically said what I think the camera companies got wrong in the article. But I will answer your response even tho this is simply moot at this point. It's too late. The ship has sailed and the camera companies have been defeated.

What I specifically propose is not just a camera solution. I made this clear in the piece. The camera companies should have pushed the photographic print and pushed it hard. When this battle was still being waged had they done that, it would have been a significant differentiator between smart phone cameras and ILC cameras. ILC cameras (especially 10 years ago) could deliver files that print much bigger and better. than smart phone cameras.

I also believe the ILC companies marketed to the wrong people. They marketed their cameras to people who do not want to buy them. They should have aimed at female audiences (moms want photos of their kids) and older people (who have the disposable income to buy this gear.)

No new camera design would help in those cases. But when it comes to the camera, a faster uptake in AI would have made a difference. Olympus pretty much leads the pack in AI implementation but they and all the other ILC camera makers are miles behind the smartphone camera makers. They needed to catch up. (I refuse to write In terms of this could be done differently now. It's too late.)

If the marketing changes and AI adoption didn't work then simply making it much, much easier to share images from the ILC camera to social channels would have been great. Yes there are convoluted things that would allow you to share directly from your camera - usually using a very clunky and poorly designed app, but the ease of social sharing needed to be a one-button solution. . . just like it is on the smart phone.

I repeat - this battle is over. It's been lost so I won't bother to really go any further to address what the ILC camera companies could do right now. I provided my advice along those lines directly to Olympus when I was one of their ambassadors (Olympus Visionary) and I provided it to Canon as well on two or three occasions. They ignored me. They lost. I believe that my article speaks for itself and this additional information will hopefully help you see my point. If you simply want to disagree with me - no worries. It doesn't matter now. Best wishes.