I can't see why it needs to be an annual release, in fact I wonder if annual releases are the best strategy sales wise? I'd much rather they waited until they had some worthwhile improvements to add to the table than feel that they have to...
Yeah but you'll have to crop out almost half of the picture. Not the case if the camera itself can turn.
Still will likely be a gimmick to add something "new" to the feature list, but people will use it anyway.