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Niche hardware works if everyone is on board.
Apple used the same window to move from its niche hardware and OS platforms to Intel and OS/10, grabbing the leadership in the mobile market and transferring its application base to a browser plus services approach.
It's difficult to fault them for wanting to recoup some of their investment in Oculus VR, but the more niche hardware players have really been usurped by a competitor that's just operating on longer timelines.
I wasn't given any specific reasons for this decision, but presumably Samsung figured that it likely wouldn't be able to take enough market share (in what's already a niche hardware market) from the likes of Panasonic and Sony to justify a full production run.
With the disappointing results, Sonos runs the risk of finding itself on a path that's already been traveled by other once-celebrated niche hardware makers before it, like GoPro and Fitbit.
And really, there has always been ever since — but with live-game streaming becoming a disturbingly large business sector, the time has come for this niche hardware to enter the limelight it never enjoyed.
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Casey believes that crowd-funding will come to the big niche of hardware very soon.
Buckwald is frank and upfront about his company's early missteps, which mostly sprung out of impossible consumer expectations for a device that looked immensely promising pre-launch, and ended up being well-executed early adopter or niche hobbyist hardware instead of the next mouse or joystick.
At BB&T Capital Markets, Michael Lewis concentrates on technology services firms catering to government clients, as well as companies specializing in a particular military hardware niche.
The downside that's commonly cited when referring to FPGA is that it is a niche piece of hardware that is complex to calibrate and modify, as well as expensive, making it less of a cover-all solution for machine learning projects.
Vreal is admittedly a product for a pretty tight niche: streamers with VR hardware broadcasting for viewers with VR hardware.
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