Originally posted by Aristophanes Ogl is 100% wrong.
First, you're not doing a very good job of reading what he wrote.
Let us recap:
Originally posted by ogl: new player [has] to offer something more special than competitors
Originally posted by Aristophanes: There is no market where first entry bars market share gains through innovation and/or marketing by competitors.
Yep, that's a strawman, as usual from you. "Innovation and/or marketing" is the "something more special" he refers to. That is, you're misrepresenting what he wrote so that you can oppose it.
Quote: Microsoft had over 95% OS ownership and look where they are now? They have a low-return commodity OS while competitors eat their margins and shareholder returns.
Microsoft is an excellent example of an entrenched competitor successfully defending its turf for decades, and it takes a major market shift to mobile devices to erode that advantage - somewhat like mirror-less will erode Canikon's dominance unless they act soon.
OS/2, BeOS, MacOS, hundreds of Unix flavours all couldn't gain any ground.
You need to pick better examples, as the one you picked to support your point clearly does the opposite.
Quote: There is no "common knowledge" that mirrorless is a market now clearly owned and defined by the current suppliers.
And now you are doing another strawman - the "common knowledge" I referred to was that established firms form a real barrier to entry to markets which new entrants need to overcome. That is the summary of what ogl said, and it is strange you find it hard to accept.
I really hope your reading comprehension improves in the future.
Last edited by juu; 06-08-2011 at 11:20 AM.