>>1472054I didn't mean - next year. But within a decade - most likely.
>>1472086You won't sell people what they don't want. Making people "want" new things is a hard job. The way marketing works, is that there are agencies out there which scour for emerging trends and sell those as portfolios to corporations. Then such corporations try their best to find out which of the trends is going to be the next big thing. Sometimes they hit it, sometimes they don't.
Enduro, e-bikes or gravel riding - on the nail.
Plus tyres - not so much.
What is certain, nobody wants an abject failure that 1x was initially. People were scouring the world for a workable 1x solution at least for a half a decade before the 11speed XX1 was introduced. (I did so in 2011-ish, pic related - 11-38 cassette) and that was such a big hit that SRAM was unable to meet demand. People were gobbling up $300 cassettes like hot cakes and for a time entire market of hodge-podge conversions sprung up.
