Sentence examples for proprietary standards from inspiring English sources

They are closed worlds based on proprietary standards.

The iPod, by contrast, is based on proprietary standards, is sold through Apple's glitzy chain of retail stores, and is priced at a premium to rival players.

Instead, he wants to remove what he calls the "value-pad" from corporate IT in general and business software in particular: all those millions of dollars he thinks are wasted on inefficient production structures, marketing and, not least, proprietary standards.

The new machine, based in part on the scuttled CHRP design, with PC-standard memory and peripheral interface, was a continuation of Apple's shift away from hardware-specific, or proprietary, standards.

Playing well with others also fits with Microsoft's new software strategy, which, unusually, depends heavily on open (rather than proprietary) standards and on co-operation with other software makers.

Spindler's most notable achievements as CEO were the successful migration of the Mac OS to the PowerPC microprocessor and the initiation of a shift away from Apple's proprietary standards.

"I regard it almost as a law of nature that anytime an Internet-based standard is good enough, it will take over the volume business from the proprietary standard," Mr. WladawsaidBerger said.

In this regard, the court has rejected plaintiffs' suggestion that the imposition of liability, in any way, condemns decisions to depart from industry standards or to utilize a proprietary standard in the absence of deception regarding the departure.

Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, a trade group representing writers, said, "The fear of piracy will drive publishers to accept a proprietary standard like this, and once someone is in that position they are locked in".

KaZaA declined in popularity (from 90% of all file-swapping traffic to 20% over the past year, according to one estimate) because its users were being sued by the music industry, but also because it was a proprietary standard.

The framework highlights the strategic potency of controlling a proprietary standard in a vertically related market.