"I'm seeing a concentration of control and power in tech, where there's less competitors in particular niches of the industry," said Arthur Corona, 30, a support team manager for the cloud-based domain registrar Gandi.net who's worked in the area, and in tech, his whole life.
For such fodder, there are less expensive competitors who do it better.
Like previous Nintendo products, the graphics are below the market average, and the capabilities are less than competitors.
It represents a chance for eBay, which is dealing with slowing growth, to tackle Asian markets where there are less entrenched competitors.
Certificates from corporate universities, being more focused on the sponsoring firm's needs, are less attractive to competitors.Many firms have now stopped paying to send managers to external business schools altogether.
Some of her male competitors are less than charitable about the reasons for Napravnik's success.
On the other hand, some Japanese competitors are less stylish but also less expensive.
There may also be a staff retention element to the strategy: If hiring an Apple engineer is not the way to learn what Apple is doing, perhaps the competitors are less likely to poach its staff.
Hold off on being project manager until there are less than 10 other competitors.
The market for "educational learning-aids", as such gadgets are grandly called, is still just 2% of the overall toy industry; and, thanks to VTech and its Asian competitors, margins are less than half those elsewhere in the business.
