However, the new Google Glass is a stand for something distinctly Google (though there are competitor products already on the market).
Perhaps it was because she was paranoid, as she was calling on Cintas customers to sell products for our competitor.
Of course, since the way to steal business from a competitor is by developing better products and lowering prices, consumers will lose.
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With economies of scale in manufacturing, procurement, distribution, marketing, sales, financing and research and development, you could get so giant no competitor could effectively attack your products or prices.
Given how easy it is for a customer to walk across the mall to your competitor, or price shop your products online, your competitive advantage is largely derived from how well you develop a relationship based on trust.
Trade Exchange's EBOT would be a competitor to this CME trading post in certain products.
With mobile advertising generating 14% of ad revenue, I feel Facebook is in the game, and will prove to be a monster competitor in advertising and a variety of other products only Facebook could develop.
Last year Humanscale's revenue from the Freedom chair jumped another 30%. (Its gross margin hovers at 50% or so, compared with 30% for Steelcase.) This despite a memo circulated to hundreds of furniture wholesalers by Knoll and another chairmaker explaining that they regarded selling the products from Humanscale, a serious competitor, the equivalent of treason.
In fact, IBM today has more Windows-based products in its lineup than any other competitor, including Microsoft.
While many analysts were hoping for a newly redesigned iPhone 5, the huge demand shows that the 4S clearly has enough exciting features to have customers still lining up in record numbers for latest offering, while once chief competitor Research in Motion flounders coming up with hot new products.
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Inefficiency and incompetence are not punished by "consumers" of their products or services spurning the UN and patronizing a competitor.
But that is cold comfort for managers that see tens of billions of dollars in sales going to their competitor each year mainly because it is not subject to the same constraints in developing and marketing its products.
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