3D Systems Expands in Rock Hill with 200,000 Square Foot Facility Lease

[curious aardvark]

There is an obscene amount of money to be made from an apple or google 3d shop.

But for that they'll need closed secure systems.

And that's both a good and bad thing.

Think how much money can be made from a simple mobile phone app (are the angry birds writers billionaires yet ? won't be long).

Won't be long before good 3d designers will be able to flog their wares on google 3d.
Said files will be directly downloaded to a shiny box in a room in your house and a short while later you'll be able to remove and actual tactile thing !
You'll pay through the teeth for the closed system cartridges, and emjoy doing so.

And for the record - I started on a zx81 with an awesome 16k expansion pack !
Well i say awesome it used to overheat and cut out.

Hated dot matric printers. Though a can of wd40 would make the ribbons run a lot longer than the manufacturers wanted :-)

The fully locked down commercialised tied into a distribution market is coming - save your best designs and in afew years they might make you rich :-)

Makes you wonder if 3dsystems are developing their magic box yet - if not they will be.

I'm pretty sure there's an office in stratasys hq where closed system software and hardware is also being designed.

The first company that closes a deal with google to team up a 3d file distribution network with a home idiot-proof printer will basically start printing their own money.

And it'll be google not apple. Apple stopped innovating with the ipad.

Current models STILL don't have: usb ports, sd card slots, hdmi ports or os deep back or menu buttons. The cheapest android tablet on the amrket has all those things.

Apple stopped innovating long before jobs died. But google not only sold their souls to the devil, they managed to slide a few clauses of their own into the agreement and now own 75% of hell.