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I have just finished reading Scott McKain's book "Collapse of Distinction". It does a good job of describing competitive emulation.

Company A invents a truly unique product or service and establishes itself as a leader in the market. Company B, seeing Company A's success, enters the market and introduces a similar product. Now the emulation cycle begins. Company A starts developing its product in a way that not only serves its customers, but also competes feature to feature with Company B's offerings. Company B responds similarly.

My problem was simple. A full schedule and a lot of research to undertake, meant that my own website was being pushed to the back burner.

When I first started the company, I was expecting a few quiet months to set up. But happily, I have been busy from the outset. Whenever there is time to spare, research is the priority.

There have been reading a lot of articles lately on the fight between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the newly renamed iOS, the operating system that runs iPhone and iPad. Almost every article, seems to make the story a little more sensational than it is, and in doing so clouds the issues. Here are three points that get missed in the fray. The bottom line?