Even in the case of technology changes, these types of platform providers are often able to catch up because of the sheer advantages that adoption can lend them.
The story of the match was her blistering strokes on both sides and her sheer power advantage.
Aside from sheer performance advantages, the real power of this technique is in its inherent ability to adapt to the spatial inhomogeneity of the problem.
To thrust TIAA-CREF into the pantheon of its better-known rivals, Allison hopes to capitalize on two innate advantages: sheer size (some $300 billion in assets overall, most of it tied up in annuity products and the retirement plans of.3 million participants) and a pristine image untarnished by the recent mutual fund scandals.
But they get none for Texas's biggest advantage: its sheer size.
Sheer numbers also suggest advantage tipping towards India: by 2028, says the UN, India's population will outstrip China's.
Underlining the unease in Japan about China's military spending and technical progress, the report said the Chinese held a vast advantage in sheer numbers of vessels and planes.
But if youth is India's advantage, the sheer size of its population poses looming pressures on resources and presents an enormous challenge for an already inefficient government to expand schooling and other services.
Feeling the pulsating energy of this performance was such a vivid reminder of America's most important competitive advantage: the sheer creative energy that comes when you mix all our diverse people and cultures together.
While big businesses with well-established supply chains have an advantage, the sheer magnitude of small business -- there are 5.5 million businesses with fewer than 500 employees in the United States -- makes them an attractive group to organize.
But Twitter has an advantage in sheer size, as well as the inertia factor: if its 200 million users can find music to listen to — and buy through iTunes, or stream by paying Spotify or Rdio — right on Twitter, why would they leave?
