Uhrman is clearly keen not to talk about these rivals directly, but reading between the lines of her deft dodge out of the question, it seems Ouya sees its advantage as coming from software and community rather than hardware specs.
In it, we hear Steve Jobs talking about his rivals directly from some of Isaacson's taped interviews.
A cynic might note that disabling rival software directly translates into profits for AOL.
Better yet, although Amazon overlaps with Google in the cloud, it does not rival it directly.
A number of bidders came up short of full-fledged war, including the Nasdaq OMX Group and InterContinentalExchange, which had threatened to take their rival bid directly to shareholders of NYSE Euronext in order to stop its merger with Deutsche Börse.
Go-Jek remains in discussions with ComfortDelGro, Singapore's largest taxi operator which previously had an agreement with Uber, but it may also launch its own private car service to rival Grab directly.
If Billboard's sources are correct, the company is now actively preparing to take on Spotify and its rivals more directly.
Outside observers were quick to condemn the TSJ's move: Frank LaRue, the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of expression, accused the government of using legal subterfuge to provoke the closure of critical media.Mr Chávez has also used the TSJ to weaken his rivals more directly.
At least one of Trump's rivals responded directly to his immigration plan Sunday.
But apart from looking a bit like a big bully in its anti-Meerkat tactics, it remains to be seen whether Twitter can stave off competition by directly lobbying against rivals — especially since there are other competitors already out there, and more likely to come.
