People criticized Samsung back then, but looking back, it was the right decision...

The camera industry was like Chairman Lee Kun-hee's pet project.
After making massive strides in the mirrorless sector with great cost-effectiveness,
they left behind an unfinished masterpiece called the NX1
and coolly shut down the camera business.
As someone using the NX500 at the time, it was an incredibly frustrating situation,
but from a corporate standpoint, the camera market wasn't a profitable field,
and even if they had beaten the established players like Canon, Sony, Nikon, and Olympus,
the market share they could capture was minimal.
So, they moved the entire camera division to the smartphone division
and focused on smartphone cameras and sensors.
For Samsung, it was the right decision.