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Innovate with something harder to copy or that you can gain genuine protection for? Snapchat seem to already be moving in that direction.

• AndrewKemendo 10y ago
  Right, except those big companies are WAY ahead of everyone on that too. Their patent portfolios cover literally everything conceivable. It's quite astonishing really. I mean far future stuff like nanodrug delivery methods, brain computer interfaces etc... It's going to take tens or hundreds of millions in "seed" investment in the future to compete with one of these behemoths - and even then they all have venture arms so you better find money that is not associated with one of them - impossible probably.
  • meheleventyone 10y ago
    I don't think it changes really it's just the next huge successes will come from a direction that will blindside the current incumbents. Either that or the model is dead as the ladder gets pulled up behind the winners.
    • AndrewKemendo 10y ago
      Either that or the model is dead as the ladder gets pulled up behind the winners. That's what I'm arguing is happening.