>This reads like a promo piece for Teenage Engineering. The credit for the mini-synth revolution really belongs to Tatsuya Takahashi, the designer of Korg's groundbreaking Volca instruments.

And neither TE or Korg has "won over kids and professionals".

They just built some cool products and made decent sales. No groundbreaking phenomenon in either.

The DX7 for example changed the whole industry. Volca's and TE not so much...