[JJ_SO]

So let's hope for a comeback, then. I mean, if Deep Purple could make it work, why can't Samsung.

Probably because they dumped it for a good reason and want to focus exclusively on smartphones? In the meantime one can do a lot of things (like shallow DoF / bokeh simulation) with a decent and simple to use smartphone.

[obican]

If we wanna be precise - Nikon 1 was the fourth digital system to let go ... FT was first and Samsung had two of em - NX and NX-M.

NX-M was probably the most short-lived system ever - introduced in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_NX_mini#Mount

Would you consider Contax N a digital system?

Or Leica R with its digital back?

Thought about that one too but it wasn't created as a digital system from the ground up, unlike the Contax N and Contax 645.

[Rover]

So let's hope for a comeback, then. I mean, if Deep Purple could make it work, why can't Samsung.

Probably because they dumped it for a good reason and want to focus exclusively on smartphones? In the meantime one can do a lot of things (like shallow DoF / bokeh simulation) with a decent and simple to use smartphone.

Killing off a camera system (one based around a LARGE sensor to boot) because there are smartphones around is like killing yourself because someone out on the Internet is wrong, in my opinion. Of course the business world may/does not follow the common logic, but the move to end the NX system looked like a spur of the moment decision taken in the strange circumstances...