Whether or not this will come to pass is still up in the air, but Apple's facing some non-trivial competition in the form of devices like the Kindle Fire.
According to Wikipedia — which could not be consulted surreptitiously on the iPhone during those early killer Trivial Pursuit competitions — the pair were critical of the kind of thinking that was "indiscriminate enough to confuse the flower of Trivia with the weed of minutiae".
How trivial thoughts of career and competition and success or failure are.
The metabolic optimization of individual cells striving for maximal growth, while modifying their environment, leads to non-trivial community dynamics that can include competition, cooperation and exploitation.
Occasionally he would telephone, usually when drunk, always for a trivial purpose – help with a crossword puzzle or competition clue – though also (I guessed) with the deeper purpose of combating loneliness.
While any new system is bound to introduce some levels of interference, they add, the problem is probably trivial, particularly if it is the cost of greater competition.
It's clear that Blythe feels a touch guilty about this, and for any "cheating" she has done (with her interviewees' blessing): even apparently trivial matters such as presenting the second London Road in bloom competition as the first.
The third level of the dispersal strategy concerns the kind of flight to be adopted by a winged aphid: a costly migratory flight or a trivial flight which is less risky and less efficient at reducing intraspecific competition [ 20, 21].
Since the waiving of IPRs runs counter to common views on strategy and competition and to engrained practices, this is a non-trivial question.
Since this fall in the gap represents a short-run effect, and the long-run effect is arguably larger, we regard the competition effect on the gender pay gap as non-trivial from an economic point of view11.
