I think the general agreement on this is: No, they won't. Even if they do, by the time they can do it well it will be too late.


In my opinion, one day soon Makerbot Industries will be one of those power companies up there with Dell, Canon, and HP. They may run the market for 2D printers, but Makerbot will run that of 3D printers. This much I am sure of.

Apple would probably have the best chances at catching up with the current market just because of what they've managed to do in the past. God knows that their printer would be all white, and it would take a sledge hammer to swap parts out.