's Glass headgear, Mr. Cook said high-tech eyeglasses would be "difficult" to pull off as a mainstream product.
This idea has actually been around for some time, but it's still refreshing to see it implemented in a mainstream product.
Conventional hybrids such as Toyota's Prius have moved from a cult niche to a mainstream product, with a cumulative million units sold--the demand for this car has closely tracked oil prices.
The brand began offering push-button start in 2007 on its Altima mid-size sedan, a mainstream product if ever there was one, and has continued to expand the offering across its portfolio.
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While this is not the first time that He has been used in HDD designs this introduction would be the first time a mainstream HDD product was shipped with He rather than air.
"This is classic disruptive innovation, where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value, " says Staten.
Unlike that mainstream Mountain View product, however, Mann's version has reportedly been around in one form or another for 34 years, and was designed with the objective of aiding vision, rather than capturing stills and video or providing a bounty of database-aided readouts.
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However, Sony has released the first mainstream non-PC product that delivers a media center experience local to the living room.
"For mainstream storage applications, there is no product better suited in the industry than our Agility 4 SSDs, providing the ultimate in access speed, application performance, endurance and reliability, at price points that most cost-conscious users will find appealing, " said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology.
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The product also marks a step toward mainstream adoption with the simple fact that it arrives mostly assembled, so customers don't need to be experienced craftspeople to put the thing together.
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For those curious, the new dates were largely determined by Microsoft guidelines, which guarantee a minimum five years of support, or in this case, two years of mainstream support beyond the release of the successor product.
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Instead, it pulled the wraps off a total of five new models, a high-powered debut that rivaled even mainstream makers like Ford, Renault and Mercedes-Benz in the product count.
In the beginning, commercial banks refused to fund his venture while mainstream salons, beauty parlours and large retail outlets refused to stock his product because it was too native.
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After the disappointing Q2 results, AMD plans to increase its focus on mainstream IT buyers and is targeting growth in mega data centers with its enhanced product portfolio post the SeaMicro Acquisition.
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