Funny thing, Last june my wife and I spent a week in Rome. (bought a 10-24 f4 and "desperately" needed to try it out at a suitable location , my wife totaly agreed.... ) I noticed the following. The majority of pictures were taken with a phone.
(Not to mention those with their phones on a selfie-stick taking pictures (of themselfes) with the even worse frontcam of their devices) I think that only 1 in every 300 people taking pictures used something like a genuine camera instead of a phone. of those using a camera, I think 1 in 100 were using something else than a standard compact camera (DSLR, ILC etc. I almost felt a little out of place with my humble X-E1 + 10-24.
People just want to have pictures (of themselfes), showing where they've been
I think gordonrussell76 sums it up pretty good "The article at the top of this thread could just as well be titled memories vs hobby as iphone vs X-T1"
Ps,
Besides the ******* selfisticks everywhere, Rome is still a great place to go to every once in a while
