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Great list I general, I mostly agree. But.

"Copycat companies & products stifling innovation"

I feel like if as a company you've made something that's easily copyable, then that's your problem.

Successful products are both popular & hard to replicate

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Im not sure why this was voted down. If you disagree feel free to change my mind on the issue

I've noticed posts like yours get voted down early then voted up.

Anyway, I agree with you. Tech was great when folks were reverse engineering hardware to make cheaper / better copies that worked with existing software. Does it suck for the company that put all the r&d into it? Yeah. Did they make a fat load of profit off it already? Usually.

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