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Originally Posted by Anthem
I have always considered a device, network, activity, et cetera, mainstream as soon as it has penetrated the minds of a wide number of people and is regarded with feelings of rank normality.
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I agree. New tech is mainstream when it people stop noticing it. TV wasn't mainstream until people stopped walking into a friend's house for the first time and saying "oh, my god, you have a
television!" A metric I've always used for a tech becoming mainstream is when it shows up in "general" stores-- such as when my local drugstore first started selling CD-Rs, or Wal-Mart started selling DVDs. Late last year, my local drugstore started selling (lousy) ebook readers...