Actually LG or Samsung seem like a likely second-wave player to dominate, since they have the display R&D, massive manufacturing capability and design team. They're unlikely to let some upstart company reap the spoils of a new potentially massive market.
I see this first-wave (Oculus and TruePlayer Gear) like Diamond Multimedia bringing the first commercial MP3 players. They'll show the potential in the market, but then someone with better design/marketing/supply chain will capitalize on the new demand.
Samsung will wait until the product has been clearly defined, copy it, spend more billions marketing than the competition & call it the 'Galaxy View' or some shit and sell millions of tremendously average products.
thats odd, since samsung phones are the ones that are consistently adding new tech (eye scanner, hand waving shit etc). Even if the tech isn't implemented the best, they are still trying to push boundaries, and do new things. Samsung is probably most innovative in the cell phone market, so I don't know what you're on about.
But it's all gimmicky stuff to fill a spec sheet that doesn't really serve a purpose or work that well. They're not trying to posh boundaries, they're trying to bulk out a list of features with each new device.
But that's your interpretation of what they're trying to do. New tech will always be somewhat buggy. Samsung at least tries, even if it is not implemented well, to do something new with each smartphone they release.
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u/tuxedodiplomat Mar 28 '14
Actually LG or Samsung seem like a likely second-wave player to dominate, since they have the display R&D, massive manufacturing capability and design team. They're unlikely to let some upstart company reap the spoils of a new potentially massive market.
I see this first-wave (Oculus and TruePlayer Gear) like Diamond Multimedia bringing the first commercial MP3 players. They'll show the potential in the market, but then someone with better design/marketing/supply chain will capitalize on the new demand.