I think that the way things will go is that within the next year or two you will see the various 3D Printing powerhouses like Statasys (ssys),they own Makerbot, 3D Systems (DDD), owner of cubify, and others get bought out by the HP's Dells, Googles of the world
That would certainly be an interesting turn of events. Who knows, maybe Apple will buy one out. That would be interesting for sure. Imagine the Apple iPrinter LOL.

I agree, that Statasys is the company that will be the ones to set the market. I think everyone else will be chasing them for years to come (unless of course someone buys them out).

God knows that their printer would be all white, and it would take a sledge hammer to swap parts out.
LOL. The iPrinter is so sexy!