Some companies had a product advantage in their heyday but lost it a long time ago.
But only once in a very long while do I come across a company that has held and maintained a tangible product advantage over the long haul.
So in this round, the company best known for hardware leads with a software advantage for its product, and the company best known for software leads with a hardware advantage for its product.
How can we create a sustainable, competitive product at an advantage to make us another leader in the manufacturing and labor force industry going forward, not just to get them back to work for a year or two, sir, but to get to work for the long term so they can grow the market on their own with their own product and their own work?
In 2012, NETGEAR was the first to announce an 802.11ac product family to take advantage of the upcoming standard.
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It will even look for worrisome side effects, hoping to definitively prove that its product has a safety advantage.
Large companies have the overwhelming advantage of being able to turn on scale for any product they believe in whereas users have the advantage of knowing what works for them.
Amgen says it has new studies showing Aranesp works with monthly dosing and doesn't know what advantage the Roche product would bring.
Emerging, younger companies always have an advantage in the product market.
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This was evidenced by our increasing number of operator customers who rely on TiVo to provide the consumer facing elements of their video product to drive a competitive advantage.
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"The fact that it's coming as an opportunity from the government directly to take advantage of the product is a different twist, " said Steven Streit, the firm's chief executive.
If it could not create shareholder value when it had more of an early-mover advantage with its product offerings, then I have a hard time believing it will be as profitable in the future as its valuation implies.
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Then they can sign up for the full product coverage under Obamacare, taking advantage of the compassionate, benevolent, guaranteed issue and community rating.
The great advantage of pursuing a product that can close a loop is that you already know the scale of the existing market.
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If you cannot sell your product without relying on consumer weakness, without running experiments to test which behavioral failures you can take advantage of, maybe you should be selling another product.
Archos' approach of using a hard drive may turn out to be an interesting advantage in a small-product niche.
Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.
Yes, it would be nice to reward loyal fans for doing their best to make the game environment a better place, but how might this be taken advantage of to score free product?
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The company is outperforming commercial-transport rival Airbus on product quality and appeal, despite the pricing advantage the European company gets from government subsidies.
"This new development stage product will allow users to take full-advantage of their large high-definition TV displays for an amazing computer game experience, " he added.
However, Apple stores in the U.S. have run short of iPhones, raising questions about whether the company will be able to take advantage of strong demand for the product.
With Roambi Analytics, we did not simply extend our iPhone solution to the iPad, but rather redesigned the product with new functionalities that not only take advantage of the larger screen real estate, but are in line with how people use the iPad vs. the iPhone, i.e.
Liberate has one big advantage over Microsoft: it has a product to sell.
But if you can say with certainty that environmentally your product is better, there can be a business advantage there.
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When we launched the black pepper futures many people asked us why, since most people don't start with that as their first agricultural commodities product, but we thought we could have an advantage with that as an early mover.
So rather than taking advantage of cheap sterling to shift vastly more product and invest to increase capacity, they are increasing their dollar prices to widen their profit margins and boost cash flow.
As an increasing number of competitors move toward the model of partnering services, hardware and software, we believe that the competitive advantage IBM has long enjoyed from a broad product portfolio and services could erode.
Given the downsides of product and service proliferation, less choice can be a competitive advantage.
This could be a significant marketing advantage, says Mark Barbato, executive director and product team leader at Lilly.
Nor that the tax advantage that private-equity firms enjoy is the product of decisions made by politicians past.
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