Two things...
THING ONE - Sorry/not sorry to nit pick, but using two different scales (really splitting these into 2 different axes, period) is bull$ht. It makes me angry, because it’s needless manipulation of the viewing audience. They’ve made two curves look to be of similar size, ostensibly to make it “clearer” with two easily identifiable curves, but this completely changes the message. I’ll attach what it would look like if you actually showed them both to the same scale. The headline would be the same, but the message would feel different, wouldn’t it? This is roughly the same data points at the same years, but all at the same scale.
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…It goes from “We used to buy –this– (holds hand up to chin level) many cameras, and then we stopped buying them and bought –this– (holds hand up to nose) many smartphones!” to “A few of us used to buy cameras, and then we mostly stopped, and EVERYONE IN SIGHT bought a smartphone. Your grandmother bought one. Your neighbor’s 7 year old kid. Everyone.”
THING TWO: Amen on the workflow comments. I put up with transferring “real” pictures from a “real camera” to a smartphone for my wife, because I like the end result so much better for a lot of reasons. I don’t feel “ambivalent” or “so so” about the process, it doesn’t have highs and lows, it just kinda sucks, period. But I do not enjoy taking pictures on a phone, and I deeply enjoy taking them with a Fuji X.