Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
by da_chicken on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:36PM
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It doesn't really matter if it is a regional thing. The point is not that the name takes over. That's just a side effect that sometimes happens. The point is that the product that came second and copied the first now dominates the market.
How about the IBM PC? Plenty of home computers existed prior to the PC, but today 8086 code dominates at all levels of computing.
How about Google's search, or Google Maps? AltaVista and MapQuest came first.
You mention Nintendo and PlayStation, but Atari was before both of those!
How about Facebook instead of MySpace?
The point is that saying that the person who comes along and copies you will do it worse because they don't understand it is often wrong.
How about the IBM PC? Plenty of home computers existed prior to the PC, but today 8086 code dominates at all levels of computing.
How about Google's search, or Google Maps? AltaVista and MapQuest came first.
You mention Nintendo and PlayStation, but Atari was before both of those!
How about Facebook instead of MySpace?
The point is that saying that the person who comes along and copies you will do it worse because they don't understand it is often wrong.