If someone is wondering what are these "units", it was clarified in the original text. They were only lenses but quite nice result in any case. MFT has always been the Alphaville of camera mounts i.e. Big in Japan.
" As a result, in 2020, we achieved the top share of the number of lenses by lens mount in the domestic market, 21.7%. "
Quite clever PR here. Even those who did read the original wording most likely missed the meaning of "by lens mount".
For example Canon and especially 3rd party manufacturers who sell to older camera owners have to split their resources between four (4!) mounts: EF, EF-S, EF-M and RF which are not added up in these tables. MFT did get at least this part right. Originally that is.
Unfortunately MFT share would drop substantially if m4/3 lenses are also split into two groups where essential build-in features are really supported by the lens mount. Oly and panny did shoot themselves in the foot when they allowed IS and AF systems drift so far away from each other that they are in reality no longer compatible with each other even if lenses still "work" per se.
It's difficult to believe they will because as the new OM-D Solutions was formed most of the old Olympus management, including the head of the department, was transferred to JIP ... so it's the same old shoes but with a new coat of shoe polish, once that coat wears off we will get the same old shoes through-and-through.
And things are made worse by Panasonic's own stubbornness/limitation (don't know which one it is anymore from all the statements they keep putting out, making it feel kind of bipolar) of CD-AF only.
True progress and way to fix the problem, IF IT'S EVEN DOABLE, is for Panasonic to give access and incorporate DFD into Olympus cameras and lenses and for Olympus to improve Panasonic's DFD and (doubtful it's possible since Sony is the one who makes and designs the sensors) incorporate PD-AF on the sensor with their cross-type AF points. A mix of these 2 technologies put together with collaboration between both companies could actually take on Canon's Dual Pixel AF as well as Sony's top-class AF as well, beating them in accuracy and performance.
One even bigger step would be such a tight collaboration between Panasonic and Olympus would be commission Panasonic to make dedicated/oriented video featured cameras and Olympus to make dedicated/oriented photography lenses ... since that's where their strength are, and if AF would be the strong point along with Dual/Sync IS between the two you have double the amount of lens options with literally no downsides.
But the more I go on the more I feel like it's the ramblings of a (wishful) madman and less like a (potential) reality.
