You can't look forward into the future to predict what might be available. There are too many variables that you won't have access to sitting in your armchair.
The biggies: Getting a technology product to mass market is a complex matrix of the right people in the right positions of the company, having the rights to the necessary intellectual property, the right technology, the right technology being used on the right problem, the problem having a way to monetize it that pays for further product development, funding (at the right time, the right valuation, and the right investors), a way to make the product reliably and at an appropriate cost, a way to sell the product to customers at the right cost, and a way to take care of customers at the right cost and time. Plus clearing any regulatory and logistics hoops that may be necessary, at an appropriate time. And finally, you have to have the right product at the right time. Delivering a new stagecoach suspension technology today, may be the right product, but it is now the wrong time. Even for venture capitalists, only a very very small percentage of them (in the neighborhood of one percent) get it right in their area of expertise one time in ten. And that is the track record for the professionals.
It isn't simple. There are literally a zillion ways for something to go wrong. I was in an early investor in a company that went down the tubes because the founder and CTO died unexpectedly of a heart attack and he was so brilliant there was nobody in the world to replace him. Nikola Tesla was right about the importance of alternating current, but wasn't as successful with selling it in the market as Edison was with DC, who had to come back later and transition to AC to move power beyond a neighborhood. (Who gets the "win"? Tesla for right technology, but losing sales, Edison for the wrong technology, but selling better?)
So...buyers remorse. Don't go there would be my advice. Buy whatever it is, enjoy it, and don't lose sleep over what might come next.
You might wake up tomorrow to find that everything with silicon in it is obsolete, or non-functional. (Non-zero probabilities, but how close to zero matters. If you had passed on taking up iron tools when they first emerged, you wouldn't have missed much, nor would your immediate descendants. Passing on the first autos wouldn't have affected you much, but it would have affected your immediate descendants. Not adopting a smartphone when they came to market would have profound implications for your life. Not taking an antibiotic today when you have septicemia, would profoundly affect your tomorrow, and the potential for a day after.)
All the best,
BG
