As a huge Panasonic fan, I am quite disheartened by this interview:

In 20 years from now the current generation will realize they have very few family photos that they can share with their grandchildren.  Either they were never saved from the phone, lost when their hard drive crashed, deleted accidently or by a computer virus, or of such poor quality that they cannot be printed larger than the size of a phone screen.  Some of this applies to digital cameras too as I suspect many family photo albums are just sitting on a hard drive with no backup.  10 years ago a former boss of mine in the IT sector loss 2 years of baby photos due to a virus.  Let's just say his wife wasn't very happy.

In many ways I feel our parents have a better record when it came to capturing the moment and saving it.  Film forced you to think about the photo you took since every one cost you money and then you printed them soon afterwards.  Digital cameras have encouraged us to be lazy and phones have taken it a step further.  I don't know of anyone who actually downloads the photos off of their phone card. They usually just e-mail/post them which is reduced from the original size.  Then they delete it from their phone.

These things always go in cycles.  The trend with phones used be smaller and smaller, until the screens started to get bigger.  Now they are getting bigger every year with 6" screens the next jump.  Maybe min-tablets and phones will merge.  And the larger screen phones will also have the better built-in cameras.  All of a sudden by RX100 doesn't look that big, just thicker.

At some point there will be a leveling out of the use of basics phones for pictures.  This could mean a separate camera or much improved in-phone cameras.  And by better camera I mean better firmware.  The cameras in most phones are just an afterthought.  They have poor JPEG rendering, unreliable WB, slow AF, poor video quality etc.  There is more to a camera than just a larger sensor.  I am actually suprised that Sony hasn't taken the lead here considering their involvement in both phones and cameras.