But while technology would seem to make competitive differentiation within the airport more difficult, it is simultaneously increasing the scope for differentiation in the air, through the provision of ever more elaborate in-flight services.
Marketing will be the primary differentiation for these pills, since each works the same way.
The race for product differentiation and fatter profit margins has even birthed some strange bedfellows this holiday season: Exclusive brands that are the result of partnerships between two retailers.
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"I think its interesting that they're going for a point of differentiation, aiming for the high-end of the e-ink market, " said Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller magazine.
However, Mays says he believes that in the end merging global tastes calls for less differentiation among markets than in the past.
But, for the manufacturer, the differentiation resides with the brand itself.
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In my next blog, I will write about product lifecycle analysis sustainability reporting how it can be the reason for differentiation in a busy market space.
" However, he said, "the global smartphone industry has now become hypercompetitive, so any differentiation on specs or services for the S 4 is likely to last only a few months or a year at best before it is benchmarked by rivals.
The switch from proprietary, airline-specific technologies to open standards will, however, reduce the airlines' scope for differentiation.
The precise ethnic groupings which exist in a State, the significance of ethnicity for social participation in societal institutions and the processes through which ethnic differentiation is constructed and maintained may vary considerably between individual States, and over time.
So the next time you are hiring a new team member, looking for differentiation in a brand or product or even hiring an ad agency, ask yourself if the people or the ideas you are working with are predictable.
There is a tremendous opportunity for businesses to take cause marketing to the next step, making it work for good while demonstrating value, providing differentiation and building brand loyalty.
Of course, the back-and-forth between the two sat providers is nothing but beneficial for end users, but we still believe that there is enough differentiation between the two to give users something to debate.
They must also sell the product, build brand equity, create differentiation and produce value by generating demand and securing future earnings for the business.
Wal-Mart's "energized differentiation, " an advertising term for the direction a brand is going based on consumer interest, loyalty and momentum, dropped 50% between 2011 and 2012 among college-educated adults, it said.
"LTE is the future of mobile communications, and faster data networks will become a key area of differentiation for consumers when choosing their mobile devices, " said Kevin Ho, President of the Handset Product Line of Huawei Device.
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Many of them are highly customized to allow for new features and device differentiation, but that same customization also makes it harder for vendors to update them to the latest versions.
Control of the payment infrastructure and individual payment choices allows for competitive differentiation among online marketplaces.
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Her work will focus on a high throughput platform for label-free detection of biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.
The ability to engage in this differentiation is especially important for software creators.
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Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.
The worry for some analysts is that Netflix ends up with little differentiation other than first mover advantage in streaming technologies, coupled to the hit and miss business of funding creative content.
Nevertheless, it is stunning how quickly the distinct differentiation once provided by Sync has devolved into such relative disdain for MyFord Touch.
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An extra click (to the set's page) gives back the set list, but the lack of immediate differentiation between tracks and sets is a clear loss for creators promoting collections of tracks, and has got some long-time users howling.
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Differentiation by ecosystem is not currently a primary driver in the selection of mobile devices for the modern, savvy consumer, but there are key differentiators that each OS can enjoy and exploit.
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