Instead, as we all know very well, Apple has systematically monetized its products — most of which are more expensive than competing
products from competing companies.
Not exact matches
Already, the bank added, new technologies have required the
company to invest in adapting or modifying its
products to draw and retain customers, and to
compete with new offerings
from tech upstarts, a trend it expects to continue.
Factors which could cause actual results to differ materially
from these forward - looking statements include such factors as the
Company's ability to accomplish its business initiatives, obtain regulatory approval and protect its intellectual property; significant fluctuations in marketing expenses and ability to achieve or grow revenue, or recognize net income,
from the sale of its
products and services, as well as the introduction of
competing products, or management's ability to attract and maintain qualified personnel necessary for the development and commercialization of its planned
products, and other information that may be detailed
from time to time in the
Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business
from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished
products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large
company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other
companies that will
compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same
products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).
Reference (direct) competition:
Companies and / or
products that
compete against your startup and / or
product within a specific category — you
compete against reference competitors by differentiating your startup and / or
product from them
Consider how everything
from company cultures to
product portfolios fits together, as well as where partners will collaborate and where they will
compete.
Low / No Moat:
Companies that may be perfectly well run and sell good products / services, but which do not exhibit characteristics that prevent other companies from competing away there profits if they start earning attractive
Companies that may be perfectly well run and sell good
products / services, but which do not exhibit characteristics that prevent other
companies from competing away there profits if they start earning attractive
companies from competing away there profits if they start earning attractive returns.
The
product is priced so reasonably that you can buy a set of four cheaper than a single lunchbox
from many
competing companies!»
The latest
product from the
company, not coincidentally announced a couple of weeks ahead of Black Friday, looks to be
competing with Amazon on price, as well — a tough proposition when you're going up against the reigning champion of consumer hardware subsidies.
Being a successful self - publisher requires an entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness to work hard to create a high - quality finished
product that can
compete with books coming
from larger established book publishing
companies.
The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks
from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the
company's new data - driven collection management tool that will
compete with collectionHQ's
product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the
company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.
Next, we can't forget that 65 % of of the
company's sales are derived
from grocery stores, which means that Hormel doesn't just have to deal with
competing products from rivals, but also must deal with large grocery chains such as Wal - Mart (WMT), and Kroger (KR).
This entails filling out a form and then having agents
from competing auto insurance
companies contact you to sell you their
product.
Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially
from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among
competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing,
product returns and price protection,
product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's
products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined
company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.
Founders Lawrence Toms, 38,
from Rhondda and Lez Paylor, 38,
from Caerphilly, said they had been keen to develop an idea which would create a manufacturing
company which would be uniquely Welsh and could produce a
product that foreign imports could not
compete with.
Fast forward to 2009 and there's a plethora of
competing claims made by
companies and much more awareness that simply dumping your old gear is a bad idea.Clearly there's now demand for greener gadgets, a fact confirmed by recent research
from the US Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on demand for green
products.
The title of Michaels» book comes
from a 1969 memo
from a tobacco
company executive: «Doubt is our
product since it is the best means of
competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.
Then, in the flash of an eye, a slew of endless press releases
from Thomson Legal & Regulatory and LexisNexis praising themselves for the fact they are themselves; combined with their endless desire to control and purchase every and any new
company (mainly tech based these days) that may actually have
products that could
compete with them sometime in the future or at the very least provide some modicum of balance in the market just quashes any hopes I had for the year.
These settlement agreements attract concern
from competition regulators due to their potential to take the form of so - called «pay - for - delay» or «reverse payment» arrangements where a generic manufacturer agrees to delay the launch of a
competing generic
product in exchange for a transfer of value (monetary or otherwise)
from the brand
company....
This case stems
from claims by Equustek, a Canadian
company, that another
company used its trade secrets to create a
competing product and engaged in misleading tactics to trick users into purchasing it.
The device, which Xiaomi is said to have developed with games
product company Black Shark Technology, would
compete with Razer's self - titled smartphone
from last November.
The launch comes at a time when more e-commerce
companies are
competing for customers buying low - cost, direct - to - consumer
products (often straight
from China).
This new device will go head - to - head with
competing products from companies like Ring and August, both of which offer similar devices.
The
company's slice of the wearable - device market declined to 12 percent in the first quarter — about half its share a year earlier — as Fitbit struggled to
compete against less - expensive
products from rivals such as Xiaomi Corp. and more advanced devices such as the Apple Watch.
While the promise remains immense, multiple
competing, incompatible ecosystems that include a lot of
products from startup
companies seem to have stalled a lot of innovation and even reductions in cost.
While Apple's iLife and iWork software suites are considerably cheaper than
competing products from rival
companies, there's still a bunch of people who would rather download them illegally than have to fork out the $ 20 fee for each app.
On the other hand, Microsoft's Surface is also seeing increased competition
from other OEMs, with the largest
companies, including Lenovo, ASUS, and Samsung, launching 2 - in - 1 devices
competing against its own
products.