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For me it's now official: Apple has ceded its position as an industry leader/innovator, and become a follower.

That is a market the OTA/cable services seem to have totally ceded at this point in time.

In recent times, the states have seemingly ceded a lot of their power to the federal government.

It's extremely unlikely imho that surveillance capabilities will be ceded by any of the nations that now possess them.

Too much power has been ceded by politicians to the media conglomerates on the public's behalf and without proper warrant.

A more accurate statement would be that gcc ceded an entire market to Clang.

But with this arrangement all of that marketing leverage is ceded to Google.

If I pay a private security firm to guard my property, most people don't assume I've ceded ownership to them.

I think that's there's where Skype might have messed up and ceded mobile to other players.

Their off again on again attitude to Solaris on x86 and their closing down of their free C compiler ceded the market to Linux.

Perhaps Ruby or Rails Rockstars have ceded prevalence to Node Ninjas?

The government ceded their control over the financial system long ago.

Greece isn't the only country that's "ceded the control of their currency to the EU," and fiscal unity that requires that the Greeks (and the other countries in financial distress like Spain and Italy and Portugal) give up control but doesn't ask countries like Germany and France to do the same isn't really unity, it's exploitation.