The real news is that Canon's decision to diversify into related imaging fields is working. They are growth areas while Cameras are weak. This means a stronger company, which can continue to develop new products and increase their share of the Camera market.
As the population in general ages, more medical services are needed, so more Ultrasound and other Medical imaging products are needed. Its a growth industry.
The world is pretty saturated with digital cameras for personal use, but there are still a lot of street corners without surveillance cameras
I just bought two from B&H to place on my rural property after seeing some suspicious characters around. They are not low end, so I hope they don't get stolen. Its a whole new area, I'm not a network expert, and am struggling to figure out a network setup that does not saturate the camera interfaces with requests for video, but to stream to several Kindles, Iphones, Smart TV, pc's, a lot of stuff. I've had 9 users connected to the cameras, and they become almost unresponsive. I may ditch the Kindles and get some Android Tablets, but I'd like to make the Kindles work better. I have three locations where I want to install monitors that connect by Wi-Fi, a smart TV over wired ethernet, my Iphone, plus be able to view and operate them on any of several PC's. I've tried over a dozen software programs / apps, but not yet found what I want. I do not understand multicast, but that might be the key. My NAS connects to them, but its Android App does not like my Kindle Tablets except one latest model tablet. (Iphone is fine). The Camera manufacturers app will not run on any of the Kindles. I'd rather not install a video server on a PC because then, it must run 24/7 with battery backup, a hassle, but I'm testing that as well, I have pc's I can dedicate and put in my studio.
I plan on trying a Android Tablet when they go on sale tomorrow at Costco to see if it does any better. Since I basically just want wireless monitors, I do not want expensive tablets.