Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.

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Although its great reliability has helped Ariane achieve a level of dominance in the global market for the launch of large telecommunications satellites, the rocket still requires subsidy from Esa nations.

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Dominance, at least at this level, may be admirable, but it gets old in a hurry.

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If Mexico was building an insurmountable dominance at the age-group level then it was only a matter of time before it permeated right through the entire system.

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But despite the home side's dominance, the Germans reached the break on level terms.

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Already the dominance of chocolate may be feeding through on this level, as Cadbury's gross margin for the first six months of 2009 fell 0.2% over the year.

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With emerging markets expected to see the highest growth rates in smartphone adoption in the coming years, Qualcomm is looking to extend its dominance at the high-end to the entry-level smartphone market as well.

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"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels, " she exclaimed.

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