This is really about the A80

(The rating is for the Powershot A80)
I had the Powershot A80 (precursor to the A95) for a year and a half. Took it on trips to Vietnam, South America, humid Chicago, etc. Figure I might have easily shot 10,000 pictures or more over that period. Then the shutter failed a few days ago. Wouldn't make a faster exposure than about 1/20th of a second. It appears that consumer cameras such as the A80 have an average expected life of about 15,000 or so shutter-cycles. So there is a price to be paid for being trigger-happy. It's already past the warranty and was offered the "upgrade" to a refurbished A95. Will probably take it, though who knows how much use that refurbished camera's shutter may have seen already.
Took many good pictures with the A80, had lots of fun with it, especially the pivoting lcd-screen. So much so, that I couldn't imagine getting another digital without that feature. The camera did have some of that fringing problem, and the lens quality could have been better.
These plastic cameras simply won't tolerate half the rough treatment that a metal camera of the 60's, 70's or earlier would, such as my still working 1970's Canonet. On the other hand, there's no way I would have operated the shutter 10,000 times in a year and a half with a film camera.