competitors

They don't always have the best price/performance ratio, but they do offer scaling options that few competitors can match.

And you're covered by a patent (or at least an application), so potential competitors can't interoperate without a licensing agreement.

You can see how far does this go since these three huge competitors actually chose to cooperate tightly on this one.

If you have a niche, and serve that niche very well, you can beat your competitors by quality rather than quantity.

We want to enable businesses to accurately measure their marketing performance against competitors and gain meaningful insights across paid, owned, and earned channels.

Their competitors, finding themselves in a more monopsonistic situation, might not be either.

They will try to keep competitors out, because they sell access to newsgroups for a lot of money so people can download warez.

But these are serious competitors and they have egos, so I'm surprised it doesn't come up more.

G+ has/had a lot of little advantages over competitors, but none large enough to bring about the mass migration that G+ so desperately needed.

Companies aren't killed by competitors, but by an inability to adapt to new means of doing business (usually because upper management is afraid to compete internally with the existing company and factions).

You might have to look at competitors such as mymana.

First you extract permission to do what you want (or the ability to survive doing what you want), then you eliminate permission / ability for competitors.

Direct competitors universally follow the pattern of "Copy Google's ideas about search, but with less economic resources".

Microsoft has a "fuck competitors up" mindset.

Microsoft has historically made some major missteps, moral and otherwise, but the insistence that they are somehow "ruining the world" by catching up to the functionality of their competitors is both ludicrous and ignorant.

So if we're talking about "what can happen in 10-20 years", then absolutely there is a possibility that Google's world dominance gets crushed by governments which gang up against it at some point rather than by competitors.