It's always fun to see young industries where there are dozens of different competitors all vying to be the one that wins in the end. So many wacky designs tha

It's always fun to see young industries where there are dozens of different competitors all vying to be the one that wins in the end. So many wacky designs that ultimately don't survive. That said, times like this are also a nightmare for third party people like software developers, accessory developers, administrators, etc... who all have to design their stuff to work on only a portion of the market or put loads of development effort into porting to more of the platforms. It is no wonder that the natural state is for most of the competitors to die off and for users to rally behind either one platform or one standard.