IMHO, manufacturers spend way too much time trying to make products designed neither for the enthusiast, nor the mass market, but to trick consumers into buying something they don't need. They create a "product line" out of a single device by slightly upgrading it from last-year's model, then taking features away from it ("Oh, you want a USB port? That'll be another $50. Need $6 more worth of flash memory? Add $100. Want a 3.5 inch jack? Just forget it. But we'll sell you a proprietary adapter for $25—AND it will be molded out of WHITE plastic!). The market is saturated with junk products that do little-to-nothing, but they'll advertise the heck out of them until people believe they need them. Manufacturers LOVE "the edge"... we'll buy anything because it's new. Their formula is usually: 1) Get enough techno-geeks to buy it 2) Get it to become geek-cool, then 3) once enough people hear about it, maybe it will become regular-cool. THEN the techno-geeks will shell-out to buy the NEXT thing, because we sure don't want anything that's just regular-cool.
I still use a first-gen 10gb iPod, I guess that makes me an cheap old-school techno-geek—not a very desirable demographic to market to.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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IMHO, manufacturers spend way too much time trying to make products designed neither for the enthusiast, nor the mass market, but to trick consumers into buying something they don't need. They create a "product line" out of a single device by slightly upgrading it from last-year's model, then taking features away from it ("Oh, you want a USB port? That'll be another $50. Need $6 more worth of flash memory? Add $100. Want a 3.5 inch jack? Just forget it. But we'll sell you a proprietary adapter for $25—AND it will be molded out of WHITE plastic!). The market is saturated with junk products that do little-to-nothing, but they'll advertise the heck out of them until people believe they need them. Manufacturers LOVE "the edge"... we'll buy anything because it's new. Their formula is usually: 1) Get enough techno-geeks to buy it 2) Get it to become geek-cool, then 3) once enough people hear about it, maybe it will become regular-cool. THEN the techno-geeks will shell-out to buy the NEXT thing, because we sure don't want anything that's just regular-cool.
I still use a first-gen 10gb iPod, I guess that makes me an cheap old-school techno-geek—not a very desirable demographic to market to.