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The compact camera was supposed to be dead. For the better part of a decade, that was the industry consensus. Smartphone cameras got good enough, the logic went, and nobody needed a separate device just to take pictures. The numbers supported this: from a peak of roughly 120 million units shipped in 2010, compact camera sales collapsed to a small fraction of that by the end of the decade. Analysts wrote eulogies. Manufacturers quietly discontinued product lines. The compact camera joined the portable CD player and the standalone GPS unit in the graveyard of technologies killed by the smartphone.
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