Apple thought it could design hardware and software in house and use standard off the shelf parts but that leads to copy cats because parts are parts.

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No operationally oriented strategy is immune from copy-cats, and Dell discovered other companies could do pretty much what they did and achieve its costs.

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Copy-cats will eventually catch up with Chipotle.

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