Moreover, many potential future competitors depend in no small part on their access to American markets, technology, goods and services.
In tech jargon, they own many of the world's most valuable "platforms" — the basic building blocks on which every other business, even would-be competitors, depend.
The public's comfort in using unlicensed competitors depends on consumers' ability to detect substandard service and their willingness to bear the costs if the service disappoints.
During an interview, Mr. Vestberg declined to discuss Huawei directly but noted that Ericsson had hundreds of competitors, depending on the type of equipment, the type of customer and geography.
Ultimately, the ability of Lamborghini's new EV initiative to keep up with competitors depends largely on the company's ability to meet shifting consumer and regulatory demands, according to IHS Markit senior auto analyst Stephanie Brinley. .
In comparison, Crowdcube charges 5% of any successful fund-raise plus a £1,750 fee, and Seedrs charges a flat 7.5% commission, which sometimes works out as less and sometimes more than competitors depending on how much is raised.
"Ants" and "grasshoppers" could both be considered as "selfish competitors" depending on the moment of the season.
The amount of attention paid to romantic competitors depends on several factors, such as the amount of romantic jealousy or the attractiveness of the competitor, and seems to be based on implicit cognitions (Maner, Miller, Rouby, & Gailliot, 2009).
Instead, today's Facebook Groups section is a busy, semi-public area on Facebook's network which resembles a Facebook-flavored Craigslist competitor…or a Meetup competitor…or a Nextdoor competitor, depending on your use case.
However, even if all mutations had concordant effects on fitness, the range in presented here (1.06-2.14) could be consistent with anything from modest benefits of sexual selection to females to a greater than two-fold fitness advantage compared to a hypothetical asexual competitor, depending on the mutation rate, so refining estimates for through further study will be critical.
Of course, the exact number of benchmarked competitors will depend on how many publicly owned companies are in the industry, and it's OK to pick bigger or smaller companies, provided you adjust the relevant benchmarks to account for differences with your corporation.
