After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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Apple launched its App Store in July 2008 and has enjoyed a clear first mover advantage since then.
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In business, those who know the most, first, and are able to apply it have a big first mover advantage.
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There are all sorts of things which can act as such barriers to entry: patents, copyrights, trademarks, geographical location, first mover advantage.
Once they do reach the shops, it will still be first mover advantage to Apple, and their public perception as innovators remains.
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Russia always had first mover advantage in the Southern Corridor purely by virtue of being able to redirect initial supplies from Ukraine towards South Stream markets.
Many of the seeds that were planted in the rush to gain first mover advantage in what producers say could be a very lucrative field are still years away from maturity.
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.
Outside of the infrastructure issues, first mover advantage will allow EE to gather a lot of media coverage as 4G is explained, and the mental associations built up between 4G and EE will be substantial.
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How big is the first mover advantage?
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It is therefore understandable that the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. is pushing Android LTE devices over the iPhone and trying to leverage its first mover advantage in order to make the billions it has spent on the network so far count.
Wal-Mart has learned the hard way that a first-mover advantage can be important in international retailing.
Netflix has lost its first-mover advantage and is looking less than nimble in negotiations.
Indeed, producing a product with the benefit of tighter integration often results in losing the first-mover advantage.
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Still, he believes his first-mover advantage and his well-honed marketing strategies will help him beat his rivals.
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The hype and hysteria that accompanied every new scheme to build market share through first-mover advantage is over.
But, to maintain its global first-mover advantage, the report finds, Copenhagen must continue to invest in the low-carbon transition.
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This gives the other video-on-demand companies the chance of grabbing some first-mover advantage.
"The opportunity to gain first-mover advantage is outweighed by the potential teething problems that the technology could face, " he said.
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"The market appears to be giving us a first-mover advantage on Big Data, " Godfrey Sullivan, Splunk's chief executive, said in an interview.
We see here a good example of first-mover advantage in ETF marketing.
The problem, however, was that Hewlett-Packard was a follower rather than a leader in this market, going against Apple that enjoyed the first-mover advantage in this market.
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Economists refer to this window as the first-mover advantage.
Now a full-blown race to become the dominant MOOC is well underway, with Coursera, World Education University, Udacity, edX and many others competing for critical mass and first-mover advantage.
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Amazon has been one of the pioneers of the e-commerce world, and fans of the firm has said that this "first mover" advantage will be one of the biggest strengths in the online marketplace.
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