You're absolutely right, and your photography analogy holds for audio, too. However, if you look at the sales of consumer grade cameras as well as DSLRs, you'l

You're absolutely right, and your photography analogy holds for audio, too. However, if you look at the sales of consumer grade cameras as well as DSLRs, you'll see that smartphones ate a lot of their market. A quick Google gives you this continuously declining graph of DSLR sales, for example: https://www.statista.com/statistics/799526/shipments-of-digital-singe-lens-reflex-cameras-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/799526/shipments-of-digi... A phone will never replace a serious camera for large fine art prints. And the same is true for audio. But already, you have cases like Kanye claiming that 20% of the vocals from his last album were recorded in voice memos: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-kanye-west-vision-for-the-future-cover-may-2020 https://www.gq.com/story/inside-kanye-west-vision-for-the-fu...