My mini canon-rant
I've been using Canon since about 2004 or so. I remember always being frustrated, waiting for Canon's to provide what others already released. Sometimes it took a year or two (or still waiting) for Canon to "catch up." Features like:
- 720p video (compacts)
- 1080 video (compacts)
- super zoom (compacts)
- zooming during video (compacts)
- quiet lenses during zooming (compacts)
- 28mm wide end (compacts)
- Faster lenses at wide angle i.e. brighter than f/2.8 (compacts)
- cleaner high ISO (DSLR)
- Pop-up fash on the high-end DSLR bodies (DSLR)
- Wireless flash control built in (DSLR)
- More than one cross-type AF point in consumer DSLRs
- Faster than 3fps shooting in consumer bodies (compacts and DSLRs)
- Mirrorless offering (mirrorless)
- Real AF speed (mirrorless)
Canon was pretty much last to market in all of these, so the M, to me, is just business as usual for Canon.