The company was expanding, building a newer and better streaming library that many new customers were happy to pay for, and meanwhile was preparing for the eventual shift toward streaming-only as the dominant model for the future of the company.
Whoever runs the dominant operating system of the future becomes the gatekeeper to content and software services, charging commissions or netting advertising dollars.
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But the charter-drafters wanted to make it harder for any other dominant majority party to emerge in future.
The FCC also directed that Harbinger could not flip this frequency it was awrded to either ATT or Verizon, the two dominant cellular providers, in the future.
But on an Internet vastly bigger and more diverse than when the Time Warner deal went down in early 2000, what does the future hold for the once-dominant online hangout?
Or, it forcibly bars future access to new customers by a dominant firm.
But the fact that these views have not become dominant in America is no reason to be sanguine about the future.
As to the future, I love to find a company that holds a dominant position in a clearly identifiable growing industry.
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Coal will continue to be the dominant electric source for as far in to the yawning tunnel of the foreseeable future as we can see.
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Indeed, future smartphones and even lower-end feature phones will likely become the dominant mobile platforms with which we check the contacts and calendars that were the killer apps of the original Palm Pilot.
Monsanto holds such a dominant position in some parts of the seed business, it would be a likely focus of any future government action.
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While Houghton fully expects Corning to be the dominant company in optic fibers, his recent trials have taught him the key to Corning's future lies more in good management than in wonder products.
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