Competition would be immense and intense in this new reality, in part because the advantages of incumbency in the pre-Internet era had become the legacy burdens of the obsolete installed base in the new era, and everything was up for grabs from just about anywhere that had a decent bandwidth connection.
For example John Mogk, a Wayne State University Law Professor who specializes in Detroit history, says two of these legacy burdens include the city's demographics and its infrastructure.
Legacy burdens also impact the CDO's budget and thereby restrict the speed with which the CDO can move.
I've often been exhausted by my parents' legacy, the burden of going through all their Things when every Thing screams silently at me with a deep melancholy.
At the beginning of the 21st century, almost a century and a half after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Americans are again struggling with slavery, and in so doing hope to vanquish slavery's legacy: the burden of race.
On the other hand, General Motors is being asked to honor an overwhelming legacy cost burden to its union workers while disavowing its obligations to its bondholders.
The revolution isn't over and the next few years will continue to be challenging for legacy operators burdened by fixed expenses since they can't flex to invest dollars and time necessary to adapt to these changes.
But whatever else O'Malley did, moving west is his legacy and his burden.
His back is perpetually hunched, his face in a grimace, as if he is weighed down by so much baggage, burden, legacy.
SOCHI, Russia — These days, Alex Ovechkin can barely swing his Russian-flag-themed hockey stick without encountering another reminder of both the legacy and the burden he carries here.
