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.
With a largely repetitive design, massive screen bezels compared to a number of recent flagship
products from rival companies, a tiny battery, no headphone jack and a $ 720 MSRP, Lenovo's ultra-high-end Moto Z2 Force badly needed all those launch deals and promos to sell a few units and make some headlines.
Not exact matches
Bloomberg reports, «The Alphabet Inc. unit is developing its own distributed digital ledger that third parties can use to post and verify transactions... Although the timing of any
product release is unclear, the
company plans to offer this to differentiate its cloud service
from rivals.
Rival formula maker, a2 Milk
Company, recently received its nod
from Beijing for its
product a2 Platinum through its manufacturing partner, Synlait Milk.
Once an advertising and marketing executive for Fortune 100 food
companies, she now advises their smaller
rivals that deliver on consumer demands for healthier, local, artisanal and sustainably - produced
products from transparent and socially - responsible
companies.
I wonder if she was waged to unleash her attack on this
product because it was taking the market away
from a
rival company with which she clandestinely works.
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).
Even with decidedly stiff competition
from rival EA's upcoming Battlefield 3, Infinity Ward and
company are coolly confident in their
product.
By having a reassuring policy in writing, it seems that Microsoft is trying to differentiate itself
from rival companies (many of which have been plagued by patent litigation), while, of course, encouraging big business to keep using its
products.
Amazon trademarked two potential YouTube
rivals amid its feud with Google that prompted the Alphabet - owned
company to pull the world's most popular video streaming service
from a number of the e-commerce giant's
products.
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.
Latest
product from the
company trying to make smart home tech not only functional but beautiful too, the Nest Cam
rival follows Hive's connected thermostat and other devices that, having launched first in the UK, began arriving on US shores last year.
Tired of having to defend his
company against claims that its
products (including hardware, software and even online presentation) are shameless copies of their respective Apple versions, Xiaomi vice president Hugo Barra on Tuesday said at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD conference that some of Apple's most recent
products also take cues
from rivals, Gigaom reports.
The
company's range of
products goes
from a 3 - watt single direction model to a 15 - watt bi-directional one, which means that the Xiaomi Mi 7 will be compatible with the Qi wireless charging standard, with charging speeds possibly
rivaling first or second generation cable - based charging standards.
HTC's vice president of
product design Thomas Chien, research and development director Wu Chien - Hung and senior manager of design and innovation Justin Huang allegedly stole «key interface technology»
from the firm in order to set up their own smartphone design
company, possibly in order to sell the data to
rival Chinese
companies.
The name of a
product, feature or service is key to its taking root in the mind and having preeminence over similar offerings
from rival companies.