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If this goes like Segway, then we can expect 10 years later cheap chinese clones, slightly modified to show up and become popular in every household. As happen
by kuschku 8y ago
If this goes like Segway, then we can expect 10 years later cheap chinese clones, slightly modified to show up and become popular in every household.
As happened with the "hoverboards" that are basically just cheap clones of the SegWay concept.
- ghaff 8y ago"Becomes popular" is more like "becomes a short-lived fad." No? I don't have sales numbers but there are any number of articles suggesting that they came and went. [1] Certainly, one doesn't hear or see much about them these days. [1] http://fortune.com/hoverboard-industry/ http://fortune.com/hoverboard-industry/
- Larrikin 8y agoI think they wouldn't have become a fad if they were well made and didn't become huge fire hazards that were disallowed on airplanes. The decline in public use I saw was tied to the number of self combusting articles in the news.
- ghaff 8y agoBut then they'd probably have been a lot more expensive and less interesting as a result--back to the upstream point. I actually think there were broader issues with Segways; they don't really work on either sidewalks or roads. But price didn't help.