That consumer apathy grows because of lots of reasons, but the fact that DSLRs are huge, don't play nice with other mobile devices, and have less photographic features then some smartphones are the biggest gripes, imo. I've used this example before: I have a phone that can created panorama's by just swiping the lens over the scene. On the screen you see it capturing the images and stitching them together. I can go on as long as I want, even until I have a full 360 degree pano. And when one of pictures misses and can't be stitches, the phone tells me to swipe that area again. It's absurd I that can't do that with my $1200,- camera, but I can do that with the phone that I got for FREE with my mobile phone service. To many consumers, such features render a phone a more powerful and user friendly photographic tool.
Sony clearly made a big step in the right direction with the A7(r). Small, being able to accept new apps and being able to couple it to a smartphone makes it fit in again.
Last edited by Clavius; 10-28-2013 at 12:04 AM.