Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy

Re:Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy by mipmap04 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:46PM (#21599401)

What about sodas like Dr. Pepper vs. Dr. Thunder? Do you think producing Dr. Thunder is ethically questionable from a business standpoint?

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Re:Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy by adolph on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:08PM (#21600253)

Or Oreo and Hydrox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox

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Re:Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy by LMo on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:03PM (#21616532)

Thanks for posting; Hydrox becomes the imitator...

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Re:Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy by kadoban on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:19PM (#21599751)

I don't think so personally. It is a pretty blatant ripoff of course, but Dr Pepper has also been around for a long time now (at least a century?)

I don't think copyrights/patents/whatever apply, but if you think of the principles behind them as a bit of a guide, designing a novel product should ideally let you profit off it exclusively for a while (to incentivize invention), but probably not forever (to allow competition and lower prices).

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