Because technology such as software requires huge fixed investment up-front, but involves trivial marginal costs, it is highly likely that competition will result in "fragile monopolies" being created, with single companies dominating segments for a time, until they are toppled by rivals.
It's a lesson that can't be told enough these days, as purists push storylines about heroic, innocent victims and evil perpetrators that dominate segments of the ongoing Me Too conversation.
"My own view is that the new sciences of human nature really do vindicate some version of the tragic vision and undermine the utopian outlook that until recently dominated large segments of intellectual life," he writes.
Its mediocrity is particularly sad since Chrysler popularized the minivan in the 1980's and then dominated the segment through the 1990's.
Mr. Dold, who seeks to appeal to north suburban Republicans as a moderate, said little as two pundit co-panelists dominated the segment and Mr. Hannity declared that "by defeating liberalism, we solve our problems".
Adele, the latest celebrity enlisted by "Late Late Show" host James Corden for carpool karaoke, completely dominated the segment with her own music and that of a few others.
Most of the computation time is dominated by segmenting the images (∼30 s per image in our implementation) and computing features (∼10 s per image).
Together, Apple and Samsung dominate both segments, and many other players are struggling to turn a profit.
But for companies that can build up enough scale, achieve top efficiency and dominate particular segments of the market, profits can be quite healthy.
Combined, these companies dominate all segments of seafood production, including whitefish, tuna, salmon, shrimp and tuna aquaculture, but also the production of fishmeal, fish oil and aqua feeds.
