Deep learning has been commoditized generally but it hasn't been commoditized for the medical domain.
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He's realized that communication platforms don't have to be commoditized.
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Sensors, stacks and platforms will be commoditized in the network.
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As a consumer economy, we demand products to be commoditized.
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"There's more capital than ever and it's increasingly commoditized," Portillo said.
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Are these extended libraries of content becoming more and more commoditized?
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Also, Uber exists now, and what is Uber but commoditized hitchhiking?
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Unlocking the black boxTo be clear, AI cyberattacks haven't been commoditized yet.
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The transaction is commoditized and doesn't require a lot of social interaction.
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Even traditionally commoditized food products like milk are burnishing local bona fides.
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As these institutions grew in size and scope, their offerings became commoditized.
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Solar cells, batteries, wireless chargers — they're all eventually going to be commoditized.
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What I'm buying is not commoditized, I have a relationship with that person.
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And the scripted – and the movies are – it's becoming more and more commoditized.
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I think people nowadays are looking for more than just a commoditized product.
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These relatively commoditized, undifferentiated services are supplementing income, not generating middle-class lifestyles.
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But while content is increasingly commoditized, assessment and authentication are becoming premium goods.
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The reason is that access control (a core firewall feature) is being commoditized.
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Inevitably a lot of products become commoditized, whether that's music streaming or cloud storage.
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It's become commoditized, and you can get a pre-built, customizable toolset for it.
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The problem is that regular, old-fashioned yogurt, like Yoplait, has been brutally commoditized.
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Deamonte Driver's death was the direct result of a system of commoditized dental care.
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Unique technology means you have a right that cannot be taken away or commoditized.
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Its business has become increasingly commoditized and competitive, forcing it to explore a sale.
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What happens when something is commoditized is that it becomes a war of price.
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We have de-commoditized our industry—certainly at least our sector has, at Delta.
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BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MANY BRANDS THEY TEND TO START TO GET COMMODITIZED.
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The fact that now it's being commoditized is sort of actually where it should.
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And as it becomes increasingly commoditized, in many cases it will be close to free.
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But most of the products that do well on Amazon are in commoditized product categories.
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That's why we're interested in something like Houzz, because its product category isn't very commoditized.
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That is a sign that the industry is at a point that it's been commoditized.
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We've hit that point in the tech industry where engineering is becoming more and more commoditized.
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The core idea of broadcasting content that disappears after a day has become commoditized and institutionalized.
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I'm going to pick something that's different than that small sort of commoditized bench on wheels.
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But over the last decade, increasingly commoditized hardware has ceded the spotlight to software, to systems.
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Here, Cairo Aidan Smith gives us a chilling, absurdly plausible peek into our buzzingly commoditized tomorrow.
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It feels like storage where it's just getting cheaper and faster and more accurate and commoditized.
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"What happens when something is commoditized is that it becomes a war of price," he continued.
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"I expect to be commoditized if I'm reading free web pages on the internet," McMillan said.
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And that's also why distribution channels have been key, especially in commoditized markets with low brand differentiation.
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Bertrand assumed a very commoditized world and did not take into consideration the softer elements of competition.
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In batteries, they have a price competitive product in a largely commoditized market with little brand loyalty.
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Second, it's easy to focus on how in the consumer realm that the business has been commoditized.
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At some point, this is going to get to the point where the technology itself is somewhat commoditized.
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Indeed, that's why Soni said they are actually starting a company like this today: voice recognition is commoditized.
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Critics of AWS have said its profit margins could become too thin as the cloud segment becomes commoditized.
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Because of course pranks have been commoditized; they were, as amateur internet content goes, a fairly easy target.
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But Hua sees that as a more generic piece of the marijuana commerce puzzle that could get commoditized.
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"On the other hand, the car industry is getting more and more commoditized because of technology," he added.
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But what if McDonalds — and its impossibly commoditized design — is also the perfect anime coming-of-age setting?
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So, you can't blame companies for wanting to profit off the fact that we've commoditized our election process.
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This transaction-focused model is well-suited for commoditized products and when consumers already know what they want.
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Their customers primarily come to them to eat rather than the experience, so the food is essentially commoditized.
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There's this backlash where now they view, you know, clients view some types of legal work as commoditized.
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The stuff at the top eventually gets commoditized, with prices coming down and fancy features hitting the mainstream.
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And there are some really good ... I think of them as very commoditized components now in the industry.
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Part of the world is increasingly commoditized, Potdevin said, and nobody is going to beat Amazon at Amazon.
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Mark Wakefield, a managing director at consultancy AlixPartners, said suppliers providing more commoditized parts will find adjusting harder.
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Their goal is to build a large business around the commoditized (and expensive to run) world of messaging apps.
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It's that sense that you're seeing a small glimpse of the future neatly packaged and commoditized for the present.
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But now, as with many other things, the counter-culture of days past has been commoditized, capitalized and sanitized.
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It's become very commoditized making the people feel like maybe more like cattle than like customers coming through here.
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These devices are too cheap and commoditized to serve as the fulcrum of a whole new generation of hardware.
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"One realizes the market is becoming extremely competitive and commoditized," said Natasha Gulati, Industry Manager at Frost and Sullivan.
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If Lumenus technology doesn't get commoditized, the startup could make clothes for highway construction workers, miners or delivery people.
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While there's no shortage of hedge funds interested in buying data, the market is becoming both crowded and commoditized.
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" Like it or not, as we at the Phoenix Center have repeatedly pointed out, broadband is increasingly becoming "commoditized.
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" And they're absolutely like, "AWS will be commoditized and then they're gonna have to pay for the delivery service.
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Very quickly though, this secret sauce becomes commoditized, eliminating the initial barrier to entry and much of the enterprise value.
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They are also unlikely to get funding as the technology is now largely commoditized, at least for "Makerbot-type" FDM.
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The action camera space has become crowded and commoditized, with peers such as Sony and Xiaomi putting pressure on GoPro.
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In the more commoditized insurance products, technology may enable brokers to achieve the scale and efficiency necessary to operate profitably.
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They will continually strengthen their core position and outsource the commoditized aspects of drone technology (hardware) or business (drone connectivity).
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Be smart: It's likely that Plepler's resignation is tied to pressure coming from AT&T to make more, commoditized content.
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Algorithms are getting more and more commoditized and big companies are trying to do a lot of the horizontal plays.
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With smartphones becoming increasingly commoditized and margins continuing to remain tough, manufacturers are looking to new areas to drive growth.
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Besides being entertaining, the videos are a clever reminder of the origins of all the fairy tales commoditized by Disney.
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Seagate's last two quarters were disappointing for the market and the disk drive maker was seen as being too commoditized.
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Interestingly, their struggles are not because they've been commoditized by competitors — they've primarily struggled with saturation of their respective markets.
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"With 'Intel Inside,' you see the power of silicon differentiating a commoditized environment," KPMG semiconductor expert Scott Jones tells Axios.
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"Many AI advances are quickly being commoditized—so who develops the technology is somewhat less important than who adopts it."
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Cramer noted that the company is moving away from its commoditized businesses and into fast-growing areas such as oncology.
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After being commoditized as a free app loaded with advertisements and a VR game, fidget spinners are finally coming to desks.
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"As a pure-play stand-alone strategy, storage will become aggressively more commoditized," company founder and CEO Vineet Jain told TechCrunch.
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Pandora's business started off as revolutionary, but has gradually become more commoditized as it starts to compete with other major players.
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As time goes on, even music streaming is becoming commoditized, for example, with Apple releasing Apple Music and sparring with Pandora.
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However, buyers and sellers have struggled to agree on deals, as estimates differ over how commoditized many of these products are.
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We think safe autonomy will be commoditized relatively quickly, and it'll be the experience that will be what differentiates the vehicle.
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And the business of making pills has decamped offshore, but it is a very small and commoditized part of the process.
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Because everything is commoditized by the internet, wearing the right suit, watch, or sneakers doesn't impress people like it used to.
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The risk is particularly acute for a space that has become "very commoditized," like online stock trading and wealth-management services.
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If you're talking about a crappy commoditized Bluetooth speaker ... No, like a decent one that they sell in the Apple stores.
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But cable companies have commoditized this kind of devices, making TiVo much less popular today than it was around 10 years ago.
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However, given the painful buying process and commoditized nature of the insurance product, consumers derive little intrinsic joy from shopping for insurance.
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WHAT ARE THESE CLOUD PROVIDERS GOING TO DO TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES WORKING WITH YOU SO THEY DON'T END UP OFFERING COMMODITIZED SERVICES.
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If you are an investor in AI, your ultimate bet is that the process of knowledge and reason will itself be commoditized.
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While organics have become more mainstream and commoditized, a new report from BB&T Capital Markets suggests that organic price premiums vs.
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A start-up like LegalZoom, which can now handle highly commoditized legal work, is not an immediate threat to elite law firms.
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As Microsoft's Rohan Kumar, the company's general manager for database systems, told me, the basics of database management have essentially been commoditized now.
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"It was not set up for a world of commoditized exploitation," where major defense contractors buy and sell flaws for millions of dollars.
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That's pretty darn cheap and it shows just how commoditized online storage has become and how much scale you require to make money.
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In the cabin, beyond your seating comfort — which has been commoditized — content, connection and physical and digital interfaces will make all the difference.
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But a lot of those transactions for Amazon stem from "commoditized" clothing items like white T-shirts, jeans and underwear, according to Boruchow.
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Banks that you grew up with would become commoditized and replicable using open services; your telecom operator or Facebook could become your bank.
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It is also behind the commoditized "like" in the social media sense; as of 2013, Facebook posts yielded an average 4.5 likes daily.
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Kevin Walkush, a portfolio manager at the Jensen Quality Growth Fund, said that Apple's phones are gradually becoming commoditized, yielding lower profit margins.
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Red Hat's business centers around an operating system, which is a layer of the technology stack that has been completely commoditized by cloud.
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A common concern is that rapidly changing technology in electronics and automobile equipment means specific materials may become either commoditized or quickly outdated.
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Thompson argues that the internet economy puts broad-based, commoditized media companies at odds with tech platforms that are astronomically bigger — a losing strategy.
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But as hardware becomes increasingly commoditized, both Apple and Samsung have looked at ways to keep their users stuck to their devices and services.
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That's because even as that networking hardware becomes commoditized and loses value, the software side offers Cisco a viable way to grow moving forward.
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The idea being, apparently, that someone with experience in selling such commoditized pleasures could not possibly understand the mysteries and creativity involved in luxury.
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Over the coming years, we'll begin to see how each cloud intends to drive differentiation, as selling commoditized infrastructure is only fun for so long.
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Pandora has had to contend with an increasingly commoditized music streaming business and had to find ways to differentiate itself from Apple Music and Spotify.
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As value creation in transportation shifts toward high-tech components and software, manufacturers of the cars themselves may become an increasingly commoditized, low-margin business.
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It takes more people per dollar under care to manage, and to market, funds active in less transparent and commoditized markets like small-cap stocks.
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The source noted that with sales down among software, the company has been selling hardware to offset the revenue losses, which is a commoditized business.
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I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person.
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In an email to "Trading Nation," he added that "commoditized products, stale distribution, and a lack of perceived value" will continue to lose share. Disclaimer
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I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person.
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"There's never been a better time to be a premium content creator as distribution becomes more commoditized and value streams to premium content," he said.
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Because insurance products are relatively commoditized, the challenge would be in developing a model that has more durable network effects where brokers differentiate outside of price.
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It's the sort of move that could lead to even more consolidation in what's an already fairly commoditized industry, where even major studios like Warner Bros.
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Companies like 3DSignals and OtoSense are both targeting this space, taking advantage of commoditized IoT sensors to help users swap parts seamlessly to avoid costly downtime.
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This is in contrast to more commoditized consumer goods where the impact of currency and commodity movements are often passed through swiftly to the end purchaser.
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But at the meeting, attended by around 100 people, he said he sees better opportunity in providing services that enable increasingly commoditized hardware to do more.
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Two former engineers said Fukui was calculating that advanced battery technology would become commoditized and so Honda would be able to buy it in if necessary.
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While giant software businesses have been built around CRM, CEO Fred Hsu said the market has changed, with the software becoming less differentiated and more commoditized.
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Since developing and managing portfolios has become commoditized, the smart advisory firms know they must provide a wide variety of personal financial planning services to clients.
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TechCrunch: I would guess that if you don't have that direct path to the consumer, it's very easy on the advertising side to get commoditized and squeezed.
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"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person," he wrote.
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Both Arris' and CommScope's businesses have been challenged as a result of some of their products being seen by their customers as more commoditized and easily substituted.
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Cisco Systems — JPMorgan Chase upgraded Cisco to "neutral" from "underweight," saying earnings estimates are conservative enough to offset the risk that Cisco's switching products are becoming commoditized.
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But leveraged buyout (LBO) techniques are now "commoditized," and the industry is extremely saturated: PE backs 23% of America's midsized companies, and 11% of its large companies.
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He added that the service offered between airlines had been "commoditized" to the extent that flyers expectations were well understood and could be met by his firm.
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Now all that stuff is becoming commoditized, where there is a zillion different APIs that you can use to get that stuff really fast and really cheap.
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Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza said that in a highly commoditized smartphone market of look-alike phones, Huawei is managing to differentiate itself with camera and personalization features.
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The system is suited to simple, commoditized policies, rather than the complex business with lots of conditions and clauses for which Lloyd's is known, the insurance CEO said.
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When the infrastructure is commoditized, supplier relationships aren't exclusive and meaningful customer loyalty doesn't exist; businesses need to continuously reinvent themselves or face a race to the bottom.
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However, this success has caught the attention of financial giants like Schwab and Vanguard, which have launched competing products that pushed down fees and commoditized this new business.
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Of course the web has been relentlessly commoditized, has all but replicated the hierarchies of power it was supposed to abolish, or at least allow users to circumvent.
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And for good reason: Basic online storage is becoming commoditized, especially as companies like Apple and Google are ever-increasing the free storage they offer to their users.
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That's because "increasingly clients are keeping work in-house or using alternative service providers," that provide commoditized legal services like document reviews or the drafting of legal documents.
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Why it matters: We are already seeing all manner of delivery to our doors — so many in fact that they seem to be becoming commoditized and plain Jane.
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The industrial aesthetic of renovated lofts led to a brand new market that commoditized the artist's practices into an urban look available to anyone who could afford it.
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We need a non-commoditized data and technology solution that can help us identify breakout brands early by looking at their growth potential — not their Expo sales booth.
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As its core networking market becomes increasingly commoditized, moves like this allow Cisco to move into the more lucrative software market, while still playing to its networking strengths.
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Satellites are becoming increasingly commoditized, and companies like Rocket Lab are looking to take this further by providing a satellite platform (Proton) as part of its launch offering.
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In many ways OPPO's marketing success is a testament to how commoditized the smart phone market has become and how the big Asian markets have become increasingly important.
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"I&aposve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person," he said.
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The question is whether Sofar can become the DJI of the water, leading the space, or if it will become just another commoditized hardware maker drowning in knock-offs.
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As fixed-line calls became commoditized and digital networks became better and faster, we saw the rise of Skype and a multitude of messaging services offering free voice calls.
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Teral sees lower 5G revenues than those from 4G as more advanced technology with additional software and commoditized hardware delivers more bang for the buck for telecommunications service providers.
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Most importantly, the Facebook Journalism Project could help prevent publishers from being commoditized such that all that matters is the content people consume on Facebook, not who wrote it.
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As the recent Pepsi commercial debacle demonstrates, young people today want to feel connected to causes greater than themselves and yet are incredibly sensitive to having their beliefs commoditized.
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"FX trading in banks is a tough business because spot trading is so commoditized and revenues are squeezed," said John Marley, a senior currency consultant at Smart Currency Business.
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Kass, who runs Seabreeze Partners Management, said in a note to clients that he does not believe investors are aware of how commoditized the money management business has become.
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Decript itself doesn't even create its basic NLP software; it uses Google's, as basic NLP is now an area that has essentially become "commoditized," said Mason in an interview.
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It has been moving away from services that are more commoditized, selling its data storage business Veritas in January 2016 to private equity firm Carlyle Group LP for $7.4 billion.
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" So he became interested in creating an out-of-home VR experience, but wasn't inspired by the existing VR arcades, which he said are "essentially commoditized — it's shooting a zombie.
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In fact, I saw a presentation in South Korea where a Korean telecom actually had on their slide "market domination," that they're sick of being commoditized as a dump pipe.
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This trend started about two years ago, as key sensors were becoming commoditized – partly thanks to smartphones – and the costs and risks of building high-tech hardware startups were falling.
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Cars, like smartphones, will become commoditized While many mobile makers once battled to mimic the iPhone, today differentiation is the leading trend in smartphones, largely thanks to open-source technology.
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And while some of us have brand loyalty (mostly because of mileage programs), the industry as a whole is fully commoditized and there is little difference between United and American.
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"On one side you want visibility, but as soon as it gets commoditized and suddenly queer means being a white gay male, you lose control of your narrative," Leyser says.
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Avaya, which competes with Microsoft and Cisco Systems, has been trying to boost its business of providing communications software to companies, as its hardware business became more commoditized and dated.
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That market is both crowded and, in a sense, becoming more commoditized, though, so they began to think of other places where the same computer vision technology could be applied.
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But to me, what is gonna define our business success is going to be our ability to translate that into a set of platforms and tools that are actually commoditized.
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Without the reinforcement loop generating a compounding volume of data and an increasingly powerful AI over time, however, that company's product remains vulnerable to copycats and will eventually be commoditized.
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Over the past decade, we have seen a new wave of industry-leading technology companies emerge by focusing on innovation in otherwise commoditized markets, from financial services to consumer products.
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"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person," Prince Harry wrote this week.
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Moreover, not all parts of the value chain are of equal value, with some highly commoditized, low-margin functions – such as solar module assembly – dominated by countries such as China.
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The services have become fairly commoditized when it comes to different pricing structures, and I think it's because people just see gigabytes of storage, and not an experience behind it.
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Launched in Greece in 2015, Welcome Pickups believes it has spotted an opportunity that moves local travel services beyond a "commoditized transfer service" to a more holistic in-destination travel experience.
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There's always going to be the same argument that was made for Dropbox prior to its significant focus on enterprises and collaboration: the price falls dramatically as it becomes more commoditized.
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"They need to decide whether they want to own that relationship between the consumer and that access to mobility or to be just the manufacturers of those commoditized vehicles," Valsan said.
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Coolisys, which targets "specialized products and services not likely to be commoditized", in August partnered with PoW Digital Mining to develop a tech and services portfolio for digital mining and cryptocurrency.
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But publishers are keenly aware of how quickly new online formats can be commoditized, and, after years of chasing traffic — most recently from Google and Facebook — how rapidly advantages can evaporate.
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But to me, what is going to define our business success is going to be our ability to translate that into a set of platforms and tools that are actually commoditized.
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Quick is commoditized at this point, so the M850i would only be a charming proposition if it delivered its speed with the fun driver involvement that used to define BMW products.
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Like it or not, as we at the Phoenix Center have repeatedly pointed out, broadband is increasingly becoming "commoditized" as consumers become more ambivalent about the source of their internet access.
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"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person," he shared in an open letter.
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"We're rather sector agnostic, but right now we are looking at companies that are more infrastructure type tech rather than super commoditized things like consumer lending," he told TechCrunch on a call.
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The value of basic step counters and sleep trackers has changed as they've become commoditized and people start asking the hard questions about whether they truly help with health and fitness goals.
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Sure, we had a number of esteemed members of the FOMC attempting to confuse the markets in their all too frequent public speeches but their efforts at transparency have become commoditized dribble.
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White corn, which makes up roughly 290 percent of the 21.48 billion-bushel U.S. corn harvest, can command a premium of as much as $210 per bushel over the commoditized yellow strain.
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The efforts are an industry talking point, with Rakuten saying it has cut the cost of building a network by using cloud-based software and commoditized hardware instead of proprietary wireless radios.
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Availability of books has become commoditized, thanks to Amazon, but there are still some smaller chains that offer in-store experiences and food and beverage options, which should remain "relevant," JLL says.
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The company also explained its cloud strategy, saying that while it looks expensive, building data storage in-house is a race to the bottom as cloud storage becomes commoditized, according to the sources.
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The ability to acquire proprietary data is a key signal to us whether or not a company will eventually find itself part of a commoditized pack or can maintain meaningful differentiation long-term.
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The move is seen as risky by analysts who fear Osram will expose itself unnecessarily to a commoditized market for lighting for streets and homes, where competition with Chinese competitors will be tough.
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In an effort to add online value to its increasingly commoditized telecommunications business, Verizon acquired onetime internet darling AOL and last July agreed to buy Yahoo's advertising and search businesses for $4.8 billion.
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The layoffs came as it was emerging that the startup's core product, its Bluetooth tag, was becoming increasingly commoditized, with dozens of me-too trackers sold alongside it on Amazon and other marketplaces.
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The most obvious one is that its core business — the one that turned it into a publicly traded company and made it one of the first breakout smartphone apps — is quickly being commoditized.
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But that's not entirely surprising, given that Bluetooth speakers have become so commoditized; Jawbone also hadn't released a new speaker since 2013, and its most recent Bluetooth headset was released in early 2014.
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Both Apple and Samsung have been left behind in China, as local original equipment manufacturers (Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo) have been aggressively gaining share as smartphones become commoditized like PCs, TVs and cameras.
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Over time, its core cloud storage product — designed to be dead simple in order to attract and keep ahold of its users — has slowly become commoditized by huge incumbents like Apple and Alphabet.
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In some ways I think it's very dismissive of blogging, of "smart takes," and much unfriendlier to other forms that have become commoditized even though doing those forms is, I think, really difficult.
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"Planning in the wealth management industry as strictly offering investment advice has become more and more commoditized," Liberi said in an interview, pointing to the rise of low-cost investment options like robo-advisers.
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Driven by decreased development costs, shorter times to market and a shift in hardware business models away from commoditized consumer electronics to recurring revenue and software services, VCs have poured money into hardware startups.
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Making masks is frankly not all that difficult — and neither, for that matter, is making active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), the commoditized inputs for complicated and sophisticated drugs that we now get mostly from China.
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"JKM seems to be gaining steam as an Asian gas price ... Since LNG is the most commoditized gas in Asia, it seems best placed to emerge as the Asia price marker," FGE's Brown said.
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The exhibition offers a fascinating look at the merging of hippie values with a modern design sensibility and how it sparked unique cultural production far outside the highly commoditized market inflamed by Pop Art.
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Santi Subotovsky, a partner at Emergence, said that two years earlier he couldn't get investors excited because the prevailing view was that the market had been commoditized and that Skype and WebEx had it covered.
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The Mountain View, California-based company has been moving away from what is sees as more commoditized services, selling its data storage business Veritas in January to private-equity firm Carlyle Group for $7.4 billion.
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Plus TV prices drop rapidly as their features become more commoditized — if you buy a 4K television set today, a TV with the same features will probably cost less than $1,000 in 2017 or 2018.
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"They no longer are selling commoditized infrastructure capacity; they now can sell to the lines of businesses and support the core ERP applications like SAP, Oracle and JD Edwards that run entire companies," Chamberlin said.
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This is despite a rapidly evolving landscape that has forced IT services players to rethink some increasingly commoditized services and innovate with offerings such as automation and artificial intelligence to win clients and boost revenue.
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In the past, the Department of Homeland Security has raided independent repair shops who have unknowingly sold counterfeit parts (itself a confusing distinction, considering many of the internal parts of the iPhone have been commoditized).
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Standard trade finance business has become commoditized, and Asia is seeing rapid digitisation of cash and growing demand for real-time transaction infrastructure, said Rajesh Mehta, Citi's Asia Pacific head of treasury and trade solutions.
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The company, which spends heavily on research and development to differentiate itself from rivals in an increasingly commoditized industry, aims to become the world's top LED maker by 2021, up from fifth place in 2015.
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Professor Cappelli said that while these measures might help improve profitability in the short term, they did not solve the fundamental challenge of competing in an increasingly commoditized business, where price is the overwhelming driver.
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But it's also because part of what Essential wants to do is change the way people feel about smartphones, and shake up some of the sense of atrophy that has descended on this highly commoditized market.
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The exemption covers SunPower's premium, high-efficiency interdigitated back contact (IBC) cells and modules, which the company argued stood apart from the cheap, commoditized imports that dominate the market and were the target of the tariffs.
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"A lot of the growth is coming from new areas where they have pricing power and it's not a commoditized business and that's good for the margins," said Ravi Menon, analyst at Elara Capital in Mumbai.
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While music streaming has become more and more commoditized, artists still have a wide array of places to distribute their songs like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music — but getting paid properly can start to complicate things.
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If Mr. Lampert had aggressively worked to shutter Kmart (which competes too closely with Target and Walmart), shrink the footprint of Sears, and jettison commoditized product lines like clothing, he might now have creditors' full attention.
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The divestment would allow Halyard to shift its focus away from commoditized hospital products, such as sterilization wrap, surgical drapes and gowns, and concentrate on its medical devices business, focused largely on post-operative pain management.
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When the "Mad Money " host inspected Trinseo for himself, he agreed, noting that the stock's price-to-earnings multiple was cheap and its business was so commoditized that even retaliatory tariffs wouldn't drastically affect its success.
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Auto revenue was down as auto infotainment was becoming commoditized and the company is going through a revenue transition phase to ramping its autonomous driving platforms in volume likely in 2019, Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Seymore said.
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As Palmer sees it, in this forthcoming new world of commoditized mass-market pods, luxury sports cars — like horses in the earliest days of the automobile — will eventually be seen as recreational products used primarily for leisure.
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"He was trying to make Infosys an innovation-driven company, not a commoditized service provider it has come to be known for," the employee said, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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Masil's short on Swedish network equipment company, Ericsson, on the back of what he saw as unfavorable pricing dynamics in an ever more commoditized industry, proved an even more prescient bet with the stock slumping around 40 percent.
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Gilt Groupe, One Kings Lane and a handful of others were sold for a fraction of the value that they once traded at because their infrastructure was commoditized and they failed to reach requisite scale to grow profitably.
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The cleaning industry is famous for steep turnover in employees and customers; as with many commoditized, low-cost businesses, the end of every contract is an opportunity to see if someone else can do the job more cheaply.
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What stands out is Amazon and Zappos expected homogeneity and normalization of consumer behavior and have programmed an inability to understand that shoes and clothes and other personal items are much different than books or other commoditized goods.
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Now, thanks to the woman who wishes to be the most powerful politician in the world, consideration for the poor and unfortunate has been commoditized for the benefit of self-indulgent plutocrats who want a tax write-off.
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Control is instantly memorable, and its best moments will stick in the imagination long after its flaws, commonplace in the scheme of things, have been forgotten like so many of commoditized shooters that Remedy still refuses to make.
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"We maintain our concern that the management team lacks the marketing acumen necessary to adapt to the dynamic changes in the market and grow its collection of 'retro' brands in highly commoditized categories," Credit Suisse analyst Robert Moskow wrote.
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Specifically, these people said, the company is likely to veer away from a side-by-side design that works well for commoditized products like cameras but is hard to use on a product as complicated as an individual insurance policy.
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While affordability is a key engine of the remaining smartphone market growth, Gartner also views channel strategy and knowledge of local consumer market dynamics becoming increasingly important — as a consequence of what the analyst dubs the "highly commoditized" Android market.
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But it's also a reminder that every company — from tech companies to food brands to fashion and other (in)tangible products — looks at their product in very commoditized ways, asks similar questions, and sees the consumer in very similar light.
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Today Marvel Studios, Electronic Arts, and the Vans Warp Tour can attest that the effervescence of humanity shall be recurrently flattened, sterilized, and commoditized for consumption by the masses to be sucked through a straw of brand partnerships and product placement.
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It is a tremendous competitive advantage to task those engineers with building differentiated business functionality while your competitors build services that do commoditized, undifferentiated heavy lifting, and then remain stuck with the maintenance of those services for years to come.
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Memberships The other "innovation" focus for some of the delivery services today is a focus on pushing users toward their respective loyalty plans as a way of locking in more predictable revenue and creating brand loyalty in an otherwise commoditized offering.
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One former employee at SigFig said that for the company and the wider robo-adviser space, the situation is like "Waiting for Godot," hoping for something — wider adoption, or breaking through what's become a commoditized space — that may not come.
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The IPO would be a bet that Irving, Texas-based Chuck E. Cheese's arcade games and kid-focused activities will differentiate it in the minds of investors from other more commoditized restaurant chains that have failed to whet their appetite.
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"ABB's solar inverter strategy probably cost it close to $1.5 billion in terms of investments, acquisitions, exit costs and ongoing losses since 2013, trying to benefit from the growth in renewables but through commoditized products," said Andreas Willi at JP Morgan.
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In the short term that's leaves them a long way behind their competitors—notably Atom Bank, the first of the new clutch of banks to pick up a banking license—who built their core banking systems on existing commoditized banking software.
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"The integrated payments sector is thriving, and Square is a consistent share gainer that benefits from a best-in-class product, strong brand, and high visibility in a largely commoditized merchant acquiring space," analyst Dan Dolev wrote in a note to clients Monday.
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The bottom line: The companies are battling for customers' loyalty as their services have become more and more commoditized in major U.S. cities, where riders often use both apps and order a ride from whichever is cheaper or can pick them up faster.
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As that market has become increasingly commoditized and people turn to other, digitised forms of communication away from traditional voice services, Verizon is hoping to invest into newer areas to move beyond "dumb pipe" status to keep its margins up, and revenues growing.
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Escaping commoditized markets is hard, but doable At the same time, Sony isn't giving up on mass-market innovation entirely, as it continues to nurture projects like Life Space UX and its internal crowdfunding initiatives that produce things like the FES Watch.
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To ensure they do not become providers of low-margin commoditized hardware to companies like Uber in the future, Stuttgart-based Daimler and rivals are investing in ride-hailing app companies like mytaxi, Lyft, Grab, Gett and others which connect drivers and passengers.
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And the chips and sensors needed for advanced computer vision are becoming increasingly commoditized, pushed along by the rapidly growing market for consumer drones and the need for VR / AR-capable mobile devices to perform inside-out sensing on the world around them.
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U.S. officials have stressed that relief on U.S. sales to Huawei would apply only to products with no implications for national security, and industry watchers expect those waivers will only allow the Chinese technology giant to buy the most commoditized U.S. components.
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Any sale by J&J of its diabetes device units would fit with a drive to exit from lower-margin, commoditized categories such as glucose meters and strips, but analysts said Asian buyers may be able to squeeze more out of the assets.
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But while steel and gasoline have become commoditized, a car's new essential ingredients, like cybersecurity and automation, will give technology companies like Apple an edge, said Brook Porter, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Green Growth Fund, which invests in the future of transportation.
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Google and Facebook have their own art filters waiting in the wings But although Prisma's iOS and Android app has made selfies in the style of famous paintings a common sight on Instagram, the company's take on the traditional filter has quickly become commoditized.
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But there are headwinds for iRobot's approach, ranging from privacy concerns to a rising group of mostly cheaper competitors - such as the $300 Bissell SmartClean and the $270 Hoover Quest 600 - which are threatening to turn a once-futuristic product into a commoditized home appliance.
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Mr. Pal is one of a growing number of refugees from large investment banks who have gone out on their own, charging premium sums to provide trading ideas to investors looking for an edge in a marketplace where information and insight has become commoditized.
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Many of these are smart moves on the part of AWS: they can help it expand revenues per user and margins on basic cloud services, which Amazon prices lower to compete against others like Google, Microsoft and Rackspace for what is essentially a commoditized product.
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Ultimately, the basic concept was too commoditized (Bluetooth trackers are a dime a dozen on Amazon), and Tile emerged as the market leader among the independents — a position it's used to evolve its product and ink lucrative investments and partnerships with the likes of Comcast.
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But there are headwinds for iRobot's approach, ranging from privacy concerns to a rising group of mostly cheaper competitors — such as the $300 Bissell SmartClean and the $270 Hoover Quest 600 — which are threatening to turn a once-futuristic product into a commoditized home appliance.
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Instead of submitting to the fate of commoditized subject or capitalist tool, the flaneur just wanders the city, scoping out randomness, changeability and ephemerality at every turn and intersection, stockpiling time itself, as Benjamin puts it, the way batteries store energy for future untold uses.
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Earlier this year, we reported that TrackR, a startup that makes a small Bluetooth device that you attach to items like keys to locate them when lost, would be rebranding as Adero and pivoting the business amid an increasingly commoditized market for its basic hardware product.
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Telecom operators are looking to artificial intelligence as a potential money-spinner to combat stagnating mobile service revenues as once-lucrative features like text messaging have become commoditized and customer growth wanes as almost everyone who can afford a phone and a data plan already has one.
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CEO Nick Muir's argument is that handset component costs have been commoditized so that when coupled with a lean startup philosophy it's able to deliver 'innovation' in the form of a range of affordable yet acceptable (in terms of performance and design) smartphones to budget-conscious customers.
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In a world where faux intimacy has been commoditized into The Brand, it's hard to tell where characters end and people begin, and how much of what's shared is part of an earnest look into the lives of other people—and how much is cynical and planned.
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If the India experiment works, the U.S. would have to seriously consider adopting the "India Stack," and if it does, entire layers of the financial service technology and business stack will become either obsolete or commoditized, moving the value to mobile software companies and non-traditional banking units.
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The layoffs, which started last week, follow a pivot about two months ago from selling individual tracking tags — a business that had become increasingly commoditized — to developing solutions to organise and track groups of items that tend to be used together (such as the contents of a school backpack).
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With an estimated $5 billion that will be spent on the 2016 election season, we have commoditized our candidates, polishing and packaging them as products so that their commercials, debates and social media feeds blend into the information environment of television series, car commercials, and fast-food ads.
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"Airbnb seems to be the biggest story in the world right now and I think it is for the traditional lodging sector if you have a more commoditized guest room experience, versus what we offer, which is an extreme social engagement," CEO Fredrick Korallus told Reuters in an interview.
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"If you define it as generating returns that aren't commoditized, that aren't easy, by doing things that others are constrained from doing, then $3 trillion is just way too small," Andrew Feldstein, head of BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, said in reference to the current size of the overall hedge fund industry.
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For digital content companies, success will increasingly require a prioritization of quality programming and meaningful journalism over commoditized and replicable clickbait; the creation of content that sustainably and uniquely captures real consumer time — not unique visitors, clicks, page views, video views or swipes (did I miss anything?) in geographies that are actually monetizable.
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I started talking to contractors, who told me that the various pieces of a system had now been standardized and commoditized to the point it'd only take a day or two to install a system, and to the point they would guarantee my panels would produce the quoted amount of power for over a decade.
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But I will also say that instead of launching a media company where we went into a highly commoditized area, news, technology, where we had nothing original to say and we couldn't point to any audience segment that we own, instead we went into a traditionally sleepy and less exciting area, high school sports.
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Media offerings have also become increasingly commoditized Read More: WPP just lost a huge chunk of one of its oldest, most valuable accounts, Johnson & JohnsonWhile clients take more of their ad duties in house, the rise of programmatic advertising has impacted media agencies as competitors can come in and automate the media-buying process.
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If a beauty or cosmetics company wants to find, say, pictures of people with high-volume hair to serve ads about body-minimizing shampoo, it'll need someone to create a custom algorithm to search for high-volume hair, since that isn't the first thing that the more commoditized solutions offer out of the box.
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It's undeniable that we need some of these technologies for targeted investigations into terrorism, organized crime, and child exploitation, but if spyware-enabled targeted attacks become so commoditized that they can be deployed on a large swath of the population, then they can become tools to spy on more than just a few suspected criminals.
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"The hotel industry historically has performed quite well in times of inflation… generally if you've got a good brand and you've got good systems and you're delivering a good experience you can actually move prices ahead of inflation which is what we've done…Fundamentally it absolutely comes down to not being a commoditized hotel," he posited.
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The initiatives paint an interesting picture of how Facebook continues to position itself as a partner to carriers to push along new kinds of operating and business models, and improve connectivity by encouraging them to collaborate more — an essential component as networks become more commoditized, but a challenge for carriers, which have always viewed network assets as their crown jewels.
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The Kilgus Farmstead, with its diversified products and focus on localized distribution and restaurants, represents what could be the future of American agribusiness, staking out a place between artisan agriculture and massive, commoditized farms, a balance embodied in the goats: not backyard pastured, but not confined either, occupying a middle ground in the market about the size of an open lot.
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" Asked whether The FT might eventually start selling a tech product as well, he replied, "Never say never about the technology dimension, but I think as we did our market research and started talking to customers and looking more at the technological landscape out there, we realized that over the years, many of the elements of the technology we have built have become commoditized.
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Yes, most of the investment selection and portfolio allocation work advisors have done traditionally is being commoditized by technology, but that frees up more time for the advisor to go deeper: estate planning, tax planning and expert guidance on a whole range of financial decisions — career planning, college and family planning, long-term health and care planning — all well outside of the securities markets.
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Yes, most of the investment selection and portfolio allocation work advisers have done traditionally is being commoditized by technology, but that frees up more time for the adviser to go deeper: estate planning, tax planning and expert guidance on a whole range of financial decisions — career planning, college and family planning, long term health and care planning — all well outside of the securities markets.
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Twitter has given anyone and everyone a direct voice to the world by smushing together three things that in traditional media have been mostly separate: distribution, or a platform to connect the world (formerly Comcast or Dish; today the completely commoditized mobile phone and internet); application (formerly the 30-minute video-on-a-screen-plus-ads model; today the pixels that comprise an app like Twitter or Facebook); and content (formerly Rachel Maddow's show; today tweets and Facebook posts).
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After making the distinction between its open source foundation and commercial offerings clearer at its annual developer conference only a few weeks ago, it is now on a path where it needs to aggressively court more enterprise users and expand its product portfolio or it risks falling behind the growing number of competitors, as much of the core container technologies become commoditized thanks to the work of CoreOS, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and various other startups and open source communities.
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